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Lovis Corinth Biography
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
he sought relief from this
hostile brothers and sisters by drawing.
this ability was noticed by this father, a master tanner, who sent
him to study art in Koigsberg on the Baltic. |
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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
he 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 painter 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 he had in Berlin
was mirrored in the painting he did there, which
grew richer and brighter as he laid this pigments more thickly and freely. Lovis Corinth opened an art school, and married one of
this first pupils. With Max
Liebermann he became one of the leaders of
German Impressionism, though this
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, he still sought out and studied the paintings of
Rembrandt and Hals. |