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Lovis Corinth
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1914,oil_on_canvas,39.375x32.5_in,100x85_cm,hamburger_kunsthalle,hamburg,germany
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self portrait in armor
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1914,oil on canvas,39.375x32.5 in,100x85 cm,hamburger kunsthalle,hamburg,germany |
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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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