Lovis Corinth
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Painting ID:: 87333 new25/Lovis Corinth-696958.jpg
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Lovis Corinth
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German Painter, 1858-1925
German painter and writer. He grew up on his family's farm and tannery. As a child he showed interest in art, taking informal lessons in drawing from a local carpenter and caricaturing his primary school teachers. Corinth's father sent him to secondary school in the nearby city of K?nigsberg (now Kaliningrad), where he lived with his widowed aunt. A superstitious woman fond of story-telling, she possessed what Corinth later described as a coarse temperament and an unrestrained, 'demonic' humour. These qualities and his aunt's bohemian acquaintances, including fortune-tellers and soothsayers, fascinated the young Corinth, accustomed to his more reserved parents. |
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Date 1913(1913)
Medium Oil on wood
Dimensions 128 x 108 cm (50.4 x 42.5 in)
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Related Paintings::. | Peasants and goats in a mountainous landscape | The Bathing Susanna | Samson Betrayed by Delilah | |
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