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Corinth is believed to have painted the Self-Portrait with Skeleton in response to the Self-Portrait with Death Playing the Fiddle (1872), by the Swiss painter Arnold Böcklin, who was widely admired back then in Germany. Böcklin depicted the skeleton in his work as a live figure, he plays the violin while the artist listens to it.
Othello, also known as Sailor, is an oil on canvas painting by the German painter Lovis Corinth, from 1884. It is a bust portrait of a black man who was a dock worker or sailor from the port of Antwerp, Belgium. The artist signed the painting in the upper left and titled it in the upper right with the words: "Un Othello".
The painting is listed on the German Lost Art Foundation Lostart Database [19] and on the Monuments Men Foundation's "Most Wanted List" of stolen art. [ 20 ] In June 2021, the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium in Brussels agreed to return Corinth's 1913 Blumenstilleben (Still Life with Flowers) to the heir of Gustav and Emma Mayer , who ...
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Art student Henri Matisse visits Australian painter John Russell on the island of Belle Île off the coast of Brittany and is introduced to Impressionism and to the work of Vincent van Gogh. Interior design gallery Maison de l'Art Nouveau opens in Paris. Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest, designed by Ödön Lechner, is completed.
The painting Self-Portrait with Charlotte Berend and Champagne Glass is one of the earliest paintings by Lovis Corinth in which he portrayed his future wife Charlotte Berend (1880–1967). Corinth met the then 21-year-old woman in 1901, after he had opened a painting school for young women in Berlin.
The “historical art piece” of the country’s first president is from the early 1800s, Colorado police say. 200-year-old George Washington painting stolen from storage. Hunt on for the ...
According to Berend-Corinth's catalog raisonné, the first version of the painting was first privately owned by Alice Schurz in Wiesbaden and later in the art collection of the city of Königsberg. After that, the painting's location remained unknown (as of 1992), [ 1 ] until it was sold at Koller Auctions in Switzerland in 2006. [ 17 ]