An analysis of Lovis Corinth, an artist who is little known outside Central Europe. Each aspect of his career is examined, including the Munich and Berlin years, his sources of inspiration, his subject matter, his painting and his drawing. The book is illustrated with numerous colour reproductions of his oil paintings, watercolours, drawings and graphic work. Corinth began his career in the realist tradition in the 1880s but he was soon at the vanguard of change. In 1901, following a period in Munich when his religious and mythological paintings brought him his first taste of fame, Corinth moved to Berlin where he became one of the most important artists spearheading the protest against Kaiser Wilheim II's official policy on art. In 1911 Corinth suffered a stroke and this, coupled with World War I, had an effect on his work. He died in Zandvoort, Holland in 1925.
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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: German
Original Language: German
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Stunning Oversize Book of Corinth's Paintings,
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This review is from: Lovis Corinth (Art) (Hardcover)
What a book! I bought it... sort of sight unseen. (They don't have a graphic of the cover online...) I was having trouble finding any books on him in my local stores. What a painter! And this book really does an excellent job of recording his life's work. He was talented and very dedicated - continuing to paint even after having a stroke. I highly recommend this book to other painters interested in figurative painting (this seemed to be his specialty, though he has landscapes too.)
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revives Corinth's reputation,
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It was Allen Frumkin who made young painters of Chicago aware of Corinth in the late fifties and sixties.It was about this time that Corinth became more visible. The Saint Louis Museum of Art has a great nude by Corinth . So, that and the Retrospective in London at the Tate . Led me to get books on Corinth. His color had always seemed muddy to me and undistinguished.When I visited the Lenbachhaus in Munich I was overwhelmed by his command of the painterly qualities. Ode to Michaelangelo in the collection revised my estimation lf his color sense.I have always held Klee ,Matisse, Bonnard as the top colorist of 20th century art.But ,Ode to Michaelangelo had an acid quality to it.So different than the French masters. I wasn't disappointed when I bought this book. It has very good color reproductions in it. There are many plates of his etchings.There is a very thorough narrative of his life and the importance of his work.It offers more than any of the other books that I have seen on Corinth.
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