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Lovis Corinth
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Fishermen's_Cemetery_at_Nidden_(nn02)
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1895
Oil_on_canvas,44_1/8_x_58_1/4''_Bayerische_Staatsgemaldesammlungen,Neue_Pinakothek,Munich
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Fishermen's Cemetery at Nidden (nn02)
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1895
Oil on canvas,44 1/8 x 58 1/4'' Bayerische Staatsgemaldesammlungen,Neue Pinakothek,Munich |
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German Painter, 1858-1925
German painter and writer. He grew up on his family's farm and tannery. As a child he showed interest in art, taking informal lessons in drawing from a local carpenter and caricaturing his primary school teachers. Corinth's father sent him to secondary school in the nearby city of K?nigsberg (now Kaliningrad), where he lived with his widowed aunt. A superstitious woman fond of story-telling, she possessed what Corinth later described as a coarse temperament and an unrestrained, 'demonic' humour. These qualities and his aunt's bohemian acquaintances, including fortune-tellers and soothsayers, fascinated the young Corinth, accustomed to his more reserved parents.
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