Picture "At Walchensee" (1923) New
Picture "At Walchensee" (1923) New
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limited | signed | inscribed | etching on Japanese and handmade paper | framed | size 48 x 56 cm
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Picture "At Walchensee" (1923)
Drypoint, 1923. Edition: unspecified edition on handmade paper, signed and marked "State 3". According to the Catalogue raisonné, the edition was burnt. This work is therefore considered a rare copy. Catalogue raisonné: Müller 674. Motif size 17.7 x 24.2 cm. Sheet size 22.5 x 28.5 cm. Size in frame 48 x 56 cm as shown.
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About Lovis Corinth
"True art (...) has no practical, utilitarian flavour. It exists solely for itself. Egotistical like a god, it stands before us in all its radiance." (Lovis Corinth)
The work of Lovis Corinth (1858-1925) is difficult to define as a whole. It is even questionable to classify his work as "German Impressionism" as opposed to French Impressionism - Corinth certainly experimented with the effect of colour in the sense of giving autonomy to the pictorial means. But he was mostly alien to scientific-academic calculations, colour systems, or the justification of colour effects rooted in physics. In general, he opposed the artistic trends of his time, and even scorned many of the new approaches of the young avant-garde as "formula art".
But at first glance, Corinth only appears to be a "conservative" painter. On the one hand, he remained attached to the figurative, realistic style of painting throughout his life. His sources of inspiration remained the old Dutch, above all Rembrandt, and he died near Amsterdam because he wanted to admire the originals there once more. However, on the other hand, he was regarded as a rebel and innovator, and always revisiting classical genres (historical paintings, biblical, and mythological themes) with a highly subjective eye, even to the point of parody and travesty. Thus, ultimately, he was completely and utterly an outstanding contemporary of his artistic epoch and was perceived as such. He was modern in every sense, and the series of his famous self-portraits show the sometimes-unstable Corinth, torn between artistic intoxication and depression, as a master of psychological self-interpretation.
Corinth's late work is of particular importance. First of all, there are the Walchensee paintings, created from 1919 onwards near Urfeld in southern Munich, where the painter rediscovered landscape painting for himself. But he also sought and found new approaches in other subjects, such as portraits and still lifes.
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