Lovis Corinth
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Painting ID:: 91314 new25/Lovis Corinth-464736.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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1883(1883)
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 85 x 66.5 cm (33.5 x 26.2 in)
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Related Paintings::. | St Martin and the Beggar | Judith Leyster | Self-Portrait with Masks | |
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