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Lovis Corinth

1858 Tapiau – Zandvoort 1925

Short information about the artist

Lovis Corinth and Max Liebermann are the two big names in German painting around 1900. As a founding member of the Munich Secession and board member, later President of the Berlin Secession, Lovis Corinth made a significant contribution to the development of modernism in Germany.

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More information about the artist

Lovis Corinth and Max Liebermann are the two big names in German painting around 1900. As a founding member of the Munich Secession and board member, later President of the Berlin Secession, Lovis Corinth made a significant contribution to the development of modernism in Germany.

Still life with flowers

Flower still lifes were an integral part of Corinth’s oeuvre from the start. What fascinated him about flowers was the unlimited abundance of shapes and colors that aroused in him the desire for all sensual experiences. Especially the cut flowers, which are exposed to rapid decay, symbolize all the beauty and splendor of life within a few days when they are at their peak.

Painting

His wife Charlotte Berend-Corinth, who was herself a painter, wrote: “Corinth was as abundant in expression and as abundant in design as nature itself. Passion raged in the play of colours, and yet the form is dominated in every spot. But a shape without tightness. I became aware of the strangeness of its enormous nature in our playful and experimental epoch. “