Saturday, September 10, 2016

Prints by Lovis Corinth, Early 20th century

Lovis Corinth
Self-portrait of the aritst with his wife Charlotte
1904
drypoint
British Museum

German artist Lovis Corinth (1858-1925) built a successful career toward the end of the nineteenth century as a naturalistic painter and print maker. In 1911 a stroke left him partly paralyzed. Corinth's style changed after the stroke, both in manner and subject. Narrative and genre pictures gave way to meditations on nature and death. Tightly controlled draftsmanship loosened into an expressionistic style of such rough conviction that the Nazis later removed Lovis Corinth's work from German galleries and museums as "degenerate."  These late works are now the foundation of the artist's posthumous reputation, which stands high among scholars and curators, though still beneath the radar of the wider world's awareness.

Lovis Corinth
Thanatos - Self-portrait with skeleton
1916
drypoint
British Museum

Lovis Corinth
Man smoking
1916
drypoint
British Museum

Lovis Corinth
Woman reading
1916
drypoint
British Museum

Lovis Corinth
Interior with woman
1917
drypoint
National Gallery of Art (U.S.)

Lovis Corinth
Willow tree
1917
drypoint
British Museum

Lovis Corinth
Wooden bench among trees
1917
drypoint
British Museum

Lovis Corinth
Self-portrait 
1919
lithograph
British Museum
 
Lovis Corinth
The artist's wife Charlotte
1919
drypoint
British Museum

Lovis Corinth
Steep hill with trees
1919
lithograph
British Museum

Lovis Corinth
Birches
1920-21
etching
British Museum

Lovis Corinth
Woman with needlework
1912
drypoint
National Gallery of Art (U.S.)

Lovis Corinth
Death & the Artist
1922
etching, drypoint
British Museum

Lovis Corinth
David and Goliath
1923
etching
British Museum