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Lovis Corinth
1858-1925 Germany/Expressionism-Impressionism
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Brief Biography-Lovis Corinth, born Franz Heinrich, was from Tapiau in the Soviet Union, Prussia, in his time; he changed his name in 1888. His first formal lessons were at the Konigsberg Academy of Art when he was eighteen; however, he painted and drew at nine. He also studied in Munich, Antwerp, and Paris in 1884 under the tuition of Adolphe William Bouguereau.
In 1903, he married Charlotte Berend, a pupil in his new art school in Berlin. He was a successful portraitist, and his work was in high demand. He suffered a severe stroke in 1911, which left him paralysed on his left side, but by 1912 he managed to continue with his paintings and produced a considerable amount of work for the rest of his life. He died in 1925 while visiting the Netherlands to view artworks by some of the Great Masters. Later his work was suppressed by the Nazis for being degenerate. Today he is regarded as one of the primary German painters. | |
charlotte berend-
corinth
ernst oppler

Self-portrait with
skeleton

the artist and
his family

armor in the studio

building under
construction

cain

eleonore von wilke
countess finkh

homeric laughter

in the fisherman's
house

innocentia
landscape at the
walchensee

menton

odysseus fighting
with the beggar

paradise

portrait of
alfred kuhn

the painter
benno becker

the painter
fritz rumpf

salome
self portrait
with his wife

susanna and
the elders

the black mask

the blinded samson
the large
martyrdom

new pond in the
tiergarten berlin

the slaughter house

the temptation of
saint anthony

the youth of zeus
