“Portrait of a Woman with Hat” by Lovis Corinth
“Portrait of a Woman with Hat” by Lovis Corinth portrays Luise Halbe. Luise Christiane Halbe (1867 – 1957) was the wife of the German writer Max Halbe (1865-1944).
After the death of her husband, she founded the Max Halbe Society in Munich in 1953 to cultivate his literary estate.
In 1955, she received the Cross of Merit (Steckkreuz) of the Federal Republic of Germany, “For her special services to German literature.”
The artist Lovis Corinth (1858 – 1925) was a German artist who studied in Paris and Munich. His early work was naturalistic in approach.
In this portrait, he used vibrant colors to create a portrait of extraordinary vitality and power.
The realism of Corinth’s early works emphasized careful observation of colors and tones. Corinth was born Franz Heinrich Louis, but in 1888, he adopted the name “Lovis Corinth.”
- Title: Portrait of a Woman with Hat
- Artist: Lovis Corinth
- Year: 1895
- Material: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 111 × 61 cm (43.7 × 24 ″)
- Museum: Lenbachhaus
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Portrait of the painter Karl Strathmann
Portrait of the painter Karl Strathmann
“Portrait of the painter Karl Strathmann” by Lovis Corinth depicts Carl Strathmann (1866 – 1939) a German painter and illustrator of Art Nouveau and symbolism.
In 1891 Strathmann moved to Munich to live in his bohemia as a freelance artist. In Munich, he met the painter Lovis Corinth, with whom he had a lifelong friendship.
Corinth wrote that “Strathmann, in his persistence, immerses himself in the ornamental patterns of his paintings down to the smallest detail and seeks to compose new motifs into the details.”
- Title: Portrait of the painter Carl Strathmann
- Artist: Lovis Corinth
- Year: 1895
- Material: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 111 × 61 cm (43.7 × 24 ″)
- Museum: Lenbachhaus
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Portrait of father Franz Heinrich Corinth with Wineglass
Portrait of father Franz Heinrich Corinth with Wineglass
“Portrait of father Franz Heinrich Corinth with Wineglass” by Lovis Corinth is a portrait of his father and was one of Corinth’s early works in 1883 in Munich.
The painting shows the artist’s father, sitting in a chair at a table, in a frontal portrait, looking directly at the artist and the viewer.
He wears dark trousers with a dark waistcoat, a white shirt, and a dark coat. Above the vest is a gold watch chain and on his left hand, which wears a gold ring, he holds a cigar while resting his head on his right hand.
The right elbow rests on the table with a golden wine cup, and a red rose on a bright table covering. His father died five years after this painting.
- Title: Portrait of father Franz Heinrich Corinth with Wineglass
- Artist: Lovis Corinth
- Year: 1883
- Material: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: Height: 101 cm (39.7 ″); Width: 88 cm (34.6 ″)
- Museum: Lenbachhaus
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Self-portrait with Skeleton
Self-portrait with Skeleton
by Lovis Corinth
“Self-portrait with Skeleton” by Lovis Corinth shows the artist at 38 years-old. In 1891, Corinth returned to Munich, but in 1892 he abandoned the Munich Academy and joined the Munich Secession.
In 1894 he joined the Free Association, and in 1899 he participated in an exhibition organized by the Berlin Secession.
These nine years in Munich were not his most productive, and he became better known for his drinking.
- Title: Self-portrait with Skeleton
- Artist: Lovis Corinth
- Year: 1896
- Material: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: Height: 66 cm (25.9 ″); Width: 86 cm (33.8 ″)
- Museum: Lenbachhaus
Lovis Corinth: A collection of paintings
Lovis Corinth
Lovis Corinth (1858 – 1925) was a German artist and who worked as a painter and printmaker. He developed a style that was a synthesis of impressionism and expressionism.
Corinth studied in Paris and Munich and joined the Berlin Secession group. Corinth was initially antagonistic towards the expressionist movement.
However, after a stroke in 1911, his style loosened and took on many expressionistic qualities. Corinth’s use of color became more vibrant, and his art gained increased vitality and power.
During the Third Reich, Corinth’s work was condemned by the Nazis as degenerate art.
In 1937, Nazi authorities removed 295 of his works from public collections and transported seven of them to Munich where they were displayed in March 1937 in the Degenerate Art Exhibition.
Degenerate Art
Degenerate Art was a term adopted in the 1920s by the Nazi Party in Germany to describe modern art.
Under Adolf Hitler’s leadership, modernist art was removed from museums and banned in Nazi Germany because such art was an un-German, Jewish, or Communist.
Artists labeled as degenerate artists were subjected to being dismissed from teaching positions, were forbidden to show or to sell their art and were forbidden to produce art.
The Nazis promoted paintings and sculptures that were traditional, and that exalted the values of racial purity, militarism, and obedience.
Degenerate Art Exhibition
The Nazis held the Degenerate Art Exhibition in Munich in 1937, which displayed 650 modernist artworks. T
he art was deliberately hung chaotically and in a disparaging manner. They also had accompanying labels that deriding the art.
The exhibition was designed to inflame public opinion against modernism; the show subsequently traveled to several other cities in Germany and Austria.
Several of Lovis Corinth’s artworks were labeled Degenerate Art and shown at the Degenerate Art Exhibition, such as Self-portrait with Model and Innocence.
After the show, the paintings were mainly sold in Switzerland at auction to raise funds for Nazi causes. Museums acquired some pieces; private collectors purchased others. Ironically, high-ranking Nazi officials took many for their private use.
Hermann Göring took 14 valuable pieces, including a Van Gogh and a Cézanne. In 1939, the Berlin Fire Brigade burned about 4000 paintings, drawings, and prints that had little value on the international market.
This destruction of thousands of artworks was an act of unprecedented Art vandalism.
Lovis Corinth
- Name: Lovis Corinth
- Born: 1858 – Tapiau, Prussia
- Died: 1925 – Zandvoort, Netherlands
- Nationality: German
- Notable works:
- Self-portrait with Model
- Innocence
- Portraits by Lovis Corinth
- Portrait of a Woman with Hat
- Portrait of the painter Karl Strathmann
- Portrait of father Franz Heinrich Corinth with Wineglass
- Self-portrait with Skeleton
The Complete Works of Lovis (Franz Heinrich Louis) Corinth
A Tour of Germany’s Museums
Berlin Museums
- The Pergamon Museum
- Neues Museum
- Altes Museum
- Alte Nationalgalerie – National Gallery (Berlin)
- Bode Museum
- Gemäldegalerie, Berlin
- Spy Museum Berlin
- Jewish Museum, Berlin
- Deutsches Historisches Museum – German Historical Museum
- DDR Museum
- German Resistance Memorial Center
Munich Museums
- Art Galleries
- Alte Pinakothek
- Neue Pinakothek
- Pinakothek der Moderne
- Lenbachhaus
- Museum Brandhorst
- Greek and Roman Art
- Glyptothek
- Staatliche Antikensammlungen
- Egyptian Art
- Staatliche Sammlung für Ägyptische Kunst
- Kunsthalle Munich
- Deutsches Museum – German Museum of Masterpieces of Science and Technology
‘Degenerate Art’ exhibit explores Nazi assault on modern art
Degenerate Art – 1993, The Nazis vs. Expressionism
Degenerate art exhibition, Munich 1937
“Degenerate Art” in Nazi Germany
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“I invent nothing, I rediscover.”
– Auguste Rodin
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Photo Credit: Lovis Corinth [Public domain]
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