Lovis Corinth
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. Related Paintings of Lovis Corinth :. | Fishermen's Cemetery at Nidden (nn02) | Kuhstall | Self-portrait with Skeleton | Walchensee, Schneelandschaft | Flieder und Anemonen | Related Artists: Oostsanen, Jacob Cornelisz vanFlemish, 1472-1533 Dvid BeckPerry, Lilla CalbotAmerican, 1848-1933
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