Lovis Corinth
Tapiau 1858 - 1925 Zandvoort
Am Walchensee, 1923
Drypoint on handmade paper
signed by hand in pencil lower right
According to the catalog raisonné the edition was burned, therefore only very few copies have survived
Published by Fritz Gurlitt, Berlin
size : 17,7 x 24,2 cm
frame: 37 x 43,5 cm
good condition
catalog raisonné: Müller 674
Handmade model frame, museum glass
Authenticity is confirmed in writing.
Lovis Corinth was born on 21.7.1858 in the town of Tapiau in East Prussia (today Gwardejsk, Russia). Already at the grammar school in Königsberg his interest in Greek and Roman mythology as well as in the Christian stories of the Bible was awakened. from 1876 Lovis Corinth attended the art academy in Königsberg, studying with Otto Günther, who introduced him to Weimar open-air painting. In 1880 he transferred to the Munich Academy. Works from the Munich period show his orientation towards the naturalistic painting style of the circle around Wilhelm Leibl.
In 1883 Lovis Corinth traveled with his father to Italy, and in 1884 he spent three months in Antwerp, where he took painting lessons with Paul Eugène Gorge. 1884-1887 Corinth studied in Paris at the Académie Julian. The artist then traveled to Berlin, where he probably painted his first self-portrait in 1887/88, followed by numerous others over the years.
from 1891 to 1899 Corinth lived as a freelance painter in Munich, where he belonged to the Secession. After meeting Max Liebermann and Walter Leistikow in the winter of 1898/99, he decided to move to Berlin, where he moved in 1901. Before that, his work "Salomé with the Head of John, II. version" was shown with great success at the second exhibition of the "Berlin Secession".
In Berlin Lovis Corinth opens a painting school. In 1903 he marries Charlotte Berend, his first pupil. In 1904 a son is born. During this time, the motif of the mother with her child appeared again and again in his works. Corinth's painting style, dark and heavy in the beginning, now begins to become looser and lighter, impressionistic. His painting style always shows a powerful brushstroke and impasto application of paint. His paintings emerge completely out of the color. In later years, the painting takes on more and more expressive features.
1907-1911 Lovis Corinth undertook study trips to Belgium and Holland. In 1911 Corinth is elected chairman of the "Berlin Secession", in the same year he suffers a stroke and is paralyzed on one side. In the period of convalescence 1912-1914 Corinth travels to the Riviera, South Tyrol, Italy and recovers enough to be able to paint again. After 1911, Lovis Corinth also turned to graphic art with great interest, producing a wealth of etchings and lithographs, as well as book illustrations.
In 1914 the "Freie Secession" split off from the "Berliner Secession", Corinth remained in the original Secession and became its chairman again in 1915. In 1916/17 he travels to Hamburg, the Baltic Sea and Tapiau. In 1918 Lovis Corinth becomes professor at the Academy of Arts in Berlin. In 1919 he and his wife built a country house in Urfeld on Lake Walchen, which served as an idyllic retreat for the next few years. This is where the "Walchensee" pictures are created.
In June 1925 Lovis Corinth travels once again to Amsterdam, he falls seriously ill with pneumonia and dies on 17.7.1925 in Zandvoort.
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