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Lovis Corinth (Art)

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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.)

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.