Lovis Corinth, birth name, Franz Heinrich Louis (1858 – 1925)
Lovis Corinth was a German writer, artist and printmaker who painted landscapes, biblical subjects, portraits and nudes. In 1876, he began his artistic training at the Academy of Königsberg. He went on to study in Munich, where he learned about realism, concentrating particularly, on the human form. In 1884, he had a brief stay in Antwerp and became aware of the works of Peter Paul Rubens which he very much admired. Later that year, Corinth went to Paris and studied under William-Adolphe Bouguereau and Tony Robert-Fleury at the Académie Julian, where he worked to improve his drawing skills.
Stroke
Corinth liked to paint in a naturalistic style but in December 1911, he suffered a stroke which left him partially paralysed down his left side and caused his hands to shake uncontrollably. Within a year, with the help of his wife, he was painting again, but the stroke had loosened his style and his work took on many attributes of both impressionism and expressionism.
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