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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.
The painting appears relatively regularly in more recent exhibition catalogs, for example in the exhibition at the Von der Heydt-Museum in Wuppertal in 1999 [17] and the joint retrospective Lovis Corinth and the Birth of Modernism at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, the Museum der bildenden Künste in Leipzig and the Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie ...
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Lovis Corinth (21 July 1858 – 17 July 1925) was a German artist and writer whose mature work as a painter and printmaker realized a synthesis of impressionism and expressionism. Corinth studied in Paris and Munich, joined the Berlin Secession group, later succeeding Max Liebermann as the group's president. His early work was naturalistic in ...
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".
Young Woman with Cats is an oil on canvas painting by the German painter Lovis Corinth, from 1904. The person portrayed is Corinth's wife, Charlotte Berend, who was 24 years old at the time. The painter's signature can be found in the upper right corner of the canvas. It is held now in the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart. [1]
The painting represents fellow painter Lovis Corinth, depicted in the seated position. Corinth's body and head are seen in profile and his head is turned slightly, looking at the viewer over his left shoulder. Liebermann usually painted his models as seen from the front, with the current side portrait being an exception. [4]
In 1870, he painted a canvas of Le Dernier Jour de Corinthe (Last Day of Corinth), which depicted the last day before the Roman legions looted and burned the ancient Greek city, according to Livy. This painting was also purchased by the Musée du Luxembourg, and is now on display at the Musée d'Orsay.