By Lovis Corinth
Located in Eltville am Rhein, DE
Lovis Corinth
Tapiau 1858 - 1925 Zandvoort
Bathing Establishment, 1920
Lithograph on handmade paper
Signed in pencil lower right
Marked "Probedruck" (proof print) lower left
Image size: 32 x 36.8 cm
Frame: 57 x 60 cm
Good original condition, under passe-partout (additional photos available upon request)
Rare proof print prior to the original edition of 115 copies
Published by Fritz Gurlitt, Berlin
Catalogue raisonné Schwarz 442
Handcrafted model frame, museum glass
Viewing and pickup possible by appointment
Authenticity confirmed in writing.
Lovis Corinth was born on July 21, 1858, in the town of Tapiau in East Prussia (now Gwardejsk, Russia). While attending high school in Königsberg, he developed an interest in Greek and Roman mythology as well as the Christian stories of the Bible. From 1876, Lovis Corinth attended the art academy in Königsberg, where he studied under Otto Günther, who introduced him to Weimar plein air painting. In 1880, he transferred to the Munich Academy. Works from his Munich period demonstrate his orientation towards the naturalistic painting style of Wilhelm Leibl's circle.
In 1883, Lovis Corinth traveled to Italy with his father, and in 1884 he spent three months in Antwerp, where he took painting lessons from Paul Eugène Gorge. From 1884 to 1887, Corinth studied at the Académie Julian in Paris. The artist then traveled to Berlin, where he probably painted his first self-portrait in 1887/88, which was followed by numerous others over the years.
From 1891 to 1899, Corinth lived as a freelance painter in Munich, where he belonged to the Secession. After meeting Max Liebermann and Walter Leistikow in the winter of 1898/99, he decided to move to Berlin, where he settled in 1901. Prior to this, his work "Salomé with the Head of John the Baptist...
Category
1920s Impressionist Figurative Prints