Painting ID:: 89958
Kain 1917(1917)
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 140 x 115 cm (55.1 x 45.3 in)
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Lovis Corinth 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. Kain 1917(1917)
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 140 x 115 cm (55.1 x 45.3 in)
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