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Self Portrait with Model
Lovis Corinth, one of the major
German artists of the 20th century, was born
an entire generation earlier than many artists
who are now considered his contemporaries. He
is often labeled as a German Impressionist but
he never considered himself one nor did he consider
himself an Expressionist. He was especially
influenced by Rembrandt and Rubens.
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 Holland 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 1919-1925 are perhaps the
most desirable images of his entire graphic
oeuvre.
When Hitler rose to power in 1933, Corinth's
early works were left undisturbed but those
works executed after his stroke were considered
"Degenerate."
Lovis Corinth by Lovis Corinth, Christoph Vitali
(Editor), Barbara Butts – Hardcover, Published by Prestel-Verlag,
October 1996
Lovis Corinth was one of the most exciting artists to emerge
from turn-of-the-century Germany. Together with Max Beckmann
and Oskar Kokoschka, he became one of the greatest figurative
painters of the early twentieth century. An outsider of astonishing
individuality, he has resisted categorization by art historians
in terms of Impressionism, Expressionism, and other movements.
Corinth began his career in the realist tradition in the 1880's,
but he was soon at the vanguard of change. Following a period
in Munich when his religious and mythological paintings brought
him his first taste of fame, Corinth moved to Berlin in 1901,
where he spearheaded the protest against Kaiser Wilhelm II's
official policy on art. Towards the latter part of his career,
Corinth's work clearly reflects his reactions to his own illness
and to World War I. Objects are caught up in a play of broad,
energetic brush strokes, the paste-like layers of paint applied
in sweeping, parallel movements to produce the characteristic
hatching that became his hallmark.
These later works—mainly landscapes, portraits and self-portraits—continued
to be an inspiration to representatives of later movements.
Lovis Corinth provides a comprehensive analysis of the artist
still little known outside Europe. The Munich and Berlin years,
his sources and inspiration, his subject matter, his painting
and drawing are examined by authors from America, Britain, and
Germany. The book is beautifully illustrated with numerous colour
reproductions of his oil paintings, watercolours, drawings,
and graphic works, providing the definitive illustrated reference
on the artist.
Lovis
Corinth: Die Gemalde
(Catalogue Raisonné) by Charlotte Berend-Corinth –
Hardcover: Cloth. 960 pages Publisher: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts
(June 1992) Text in German
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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.
Lovis Corinth 
Lovis
Corinth: Die Gemalde
(Catalogue Raisonné) by Charlotte Berend-Corinth –
Hardcover: Cloth. 960 pages Publisher: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts
(June 1992) Text in German
Lovis Corinth (California Studies in the History of Art,
No 27) 
Lovis Corinth
