The book examines the stylistic transformations through the lens of Lovis Corinth's life and work: The eroticism he addressed at the beginning of his marriage in nude portraits of his young wife, which gradually morphed into the theme of mother and child; the children growing up and the family as a leitmotif in his work; but also his own aging, which he repeatedly incorporated in his symbolic vanitas paintings; and finally, the climax of his oeuvre, the landscape paintings from the Walchensee. Text: Stephanie Auer, Dominik Brabant, Kathrin Elversvamberk, Markus Fellinger, Miroslav Haák, Kerstin Jesse, Rolf H. Johannsen, Alexander Klee, Lucia KleeBeck, Peter Kropmanns

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Themes of eroticism, family and mortality in the art and life of Lovis Corinth

This book examines the stylistic and thematic transformations of the art of Lovis Corinth (1858-1925), from the eroticism of his nude portraits of his young wife to the images of mother and child, family life, depictions of Corinth's own aging and his landscape paintings from the Walchensee.