Lovis Corinth
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Self-Portrait with Straw Hat (mk09)
Painting ID:: 21584 new6/Lovis Corinth-858425.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. |
Self-Portrait with Straw Hat (mk09) |
1923
Oil on cardboard 70 x 85 cm
Bern,Kunstmuseum Bern |
Related Paintings::. | Stilleben mit Blumen und Fruchten | Cow 145 | Portrait of Emanuel Nobel, | |
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