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Lovis Corinth (July 21, 1858, Tapiau, East Prussia
(today Gwardeisk in the Russia|Russian enclave
Kaliningrad Oblast) - July 17, 1925, Zandvoort,
Netherlands) was a Germany|German painter who
found a synthesis of impressionism and
expressionism.

He was a German painter and graphic artist. He
studied in Paris and Munich, joined the Berlin
Secession group, and later succeeded Max
Liebermann as president. His early work was
naturalistic in approach. Corinth was antagonistic
toward the expressionist movement, although after
a stroke in 1911 his style loosened and took on
many expressionistic qualities. His colors became
more vibrant, and he created portraits and
landscapes of extraordinary vitality and power. A
self-portrait is in the Museum of Modern Art, New
York City.

Corinth showed an early talent for drawing and
attended the Munich Academy in 1880, which rivaled
Paris as the avant-garde art center in Europe at
the time. There he was influenced by Courbet and
the Barbizon school as they were interpreted by
Munich artists, Wilhelm Leibl and Otto Trubner. He
then traveled to Paris where he studied under
William-Adolphe Bouguereau at the Academie Julian.
In 1891, Corinth returned to Munich but in 1892,
he abandoned the Munich Academy and joined the
very first Secession. In 1894, he joined the Free
Association and in 1899, he exhibited in an
exhibition organized by the Berlin Secession.
These nine Munich years were not his most
productive and he was perhaps better known for his
ability to drink large amounts of red wine and
champagne. 

In 1900, he moved to Berlin where he had a one-man
exhibition at the famous gallery owned by Paul
Cassirer. In 1902 at the age of 43, he opened a
School of Painting for Women and married his first
student, Charlotte Berend, some 20 years his
junior. Charlotte was his youthful muse, spiritual
partner and mother of his two children. She had a
profound influence on him and family life became a
major theme in his art during this time. 

In 1911, he suffered a stroke and was partially
paralyzed on his left side. With the help of his
wife, a year later he was back to work with his
right hand. It was during this time that
landscapes became a significant part of his
oeuvre. From 1915-1925, he was elected President
of the Berlin Secession. In 1925, he traveled to
the Netherlands to look at his favorite Dutch
masters and while there, caught pneumonia and died
in Zanvoort. 

Corinth explored every print technique except
aquatint but drypoint and lithography were his
favorites. His created his first etching in 1891
and his first lithograph in 1894. In 1919, he
experimented with the woodcut medium but only made
11. Like Picasso, Corinth was quite prolific and
in the last fifteen years of his life, he produced
more than 900 graphic works including 60
self-portraits. The landscapes he created between
1919 and 1925 are perhaps the most desirable
images of his entire graphic oeuvre. 

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