"Bringing the Museum to You"

The Cyber Art Show continues our study of landscape artists in the Public Domain with a seven-piece exhibition of works by the German painter and printmaker Lovis Corinth (1858-1925).

The son of a tanner, Lovis displayed a talent for drawing as a child. In 1876 he went to study painting in the academy of Königsberg. In 1880 he attended the Academy of Fine Art in Munich, which rivaled Paris as the avant-garde art center in Europe at the time. There he was influenced by Courbet and the Barbizon school. Corinth then traveled to Antwerp and then on to Paris where he studied under William-Adolphe Bouguereau at the Académie Julian. He returned to Königsberg in 1888 when he adopted the name "Lovis Corinth.” After studying in Paris and Munich, he joined the Berlin Secession group, later succeeding Max Liebermann as the group's president.

Using vibrant color he created portraits and landscapes of extraordinary vitality and power. Corinth’s best work realized a synthesis of Impressionism and Expressionism.