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Lovis Corinth was a German artist and writer whose mature work as a painter and printmaker realized a synthesis of impressionism and expressionism.
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culture · German painter (1858–1925) · painter · university teacher · graphic artist · draftsperson · lithographer · illustrator · printmaker · artist · etcher · theatre designer · also Lovis Corinth, Louis Corinth, Lovis Korint, Corinth Lovis, Corinth, l. corinth
Born 21 July 1858 · Died 17 July 1925 · Q157610
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Artnet: Spotlight: A Cologne Gallery Revives the Legacy of Early 20th-Century German Painter Lovis Corinth in a New Solo Exhibition
Heirs of Holocaust victims Thea and Fritz Goldschmidt made a restitution claim for Covinth's Tyrolean Woman with Cat" ("Tirolerin mit Katze") after the painting appeared at the Im Kinsky auction house in Vienna on sale f
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The German city of Hanover returned a painting by Corinth to the heirs of Jewish collector Curt Glaser, who sold it in 1933 to fund his escape from the Nazis
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Nazi authorities removed 295 of his works from public collections, and transported seven of them to Munich where they were displayed in March 1937 in the Degenerate Art Exhibition
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A commemorative exhibition of Corinth's paintings and watercolors was presented at the Nationalgalerie in Berlin, and an exhibition of his prints and drawings was held at the Berlin Academy
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Died 1925-07-17.
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Traveled to the Netherlands to view the works of his favorite Dutch masters
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His works were exhibited in the Venice Biennale
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An anthology of his art-historical writings was published in Berlin
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His style loosened and took on many expressionistic qualities
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Corinth had donated the painting Golgatha for the altar of the church of his birthplace, Tapiau
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Published Das Erlernen der Malerei ("On Learning to Paint")
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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
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And had a one-man exhibition at a gallery owned by Paul Cassirer
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Joined the Free Association, and in 1899 he participated in an exhibition organized by the Berlin Secession
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Corinth returned to Munich, but in 1892 he abandoned the Munich Academy and joined the Munich Secession
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When he adopted the name "Lovis Corinth"
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Traveled to Munich, which rivaled Paris as the avant-garde art center in Europe at the time
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Went to study painting in the academy of Königsberg
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Studied at Kneiphof Gymnasium (1866–1873).
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Born 1858-07-21.
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