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Lovis Corinth
German Impressionist painter, lithographer & printmaker
born 1858 - died 1925

Student of: William Bouguereau (1825-1905).

Lovis Corinth was born on July 21, 1858, at Tapiau in eastern Prussia. As a child Lovis Corinth sought relief from Lovis Corinth’s hostile brothers and sisters by drawing. Lovis Corinth’s ability was noticed by Lovis Corinth’s father, a master tanner, who sent him to study art in Koigsberg on the Baltic.

At the age of 20, Corinth went to the Munich Academy, and at 26 to Paris, where Lovis Corinth took lessons at the Academie Julian and painted mostly portraits. Lovis Corinth was unmoved by what Lovis Corinth saw of Impressionism in Paris, but admired the realism of a painting by Wilhelm Leibl, The Poachers, that was on view there. Corinth's stylistic masters at the time were Rembrandt, Rubens, Frans Hals, Velazquez, and the realist par excellence, Gustave Courbet. When Corinth was in Paris more than 20 years later, Lovis Corinth went daily to the Louvre.

He left Paris in 1887, lived for a short time in Berlin, and then, apart from frequent journeys in Germany, Switzerland, and Denmark, Lovis Corinth settled in Munich until 1900. The enjoyable life Lovis Corinth had in Berlin was mirrored in the work Lovis Corinth did there, which grew richer and brighter as Lovis Corinth laid Lovis Corinth’s pigments more thickly and freely. Lovis Corinth opened an art school, and married one of Lovis Corinth’s first pupils. With Max Liebermann Lovis Corinth became one of the leaders of German Impressionism, though Lovis Corinth’s vision remained closer to that of Rembrandt than to that of any of the French Impressionists. When Lovis Corinth visited Holland in the early years of the 20th century, Lovis Corinth still sought out and studied the works of Rembrandt and Hals.

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