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Lovis Corinth
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Berlin,_Unter_den_Linden
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Date_1922(1922)
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Medium_Oil_on_canvas
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Dimensions_70_x_90_cm_(27.6_x_35.4_in)
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Berlin, Unter den Linden
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| Date 1922(1922)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 70 x 90 cm (27.6 x 35.4 in)
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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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