Slaughtered pig

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Slaughtered pig (Lovis Corinth)
Slaughtered pig
Lovis Corinth , 1906
Chalk and pastel on white-gray wove paper
25.4 × 34.4 cm
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Slaughtered pig is a picture by the German painter Lovis Corinth , which he painted in chalk and pastel on white-gray wove paper in 1906. Today it is located in the Museum of Modern Art in New York City as a foundation of the Mr. and Mrs. Walter Bareiss Fund .

Image description

The picture shows a dead domestic pig lying on a wooden bench. The pig is shown very vividly and three-dimensionally, whereby the massive shape of the animal was emphasized by yellow color, while other parts disappear in the shadow.

Background and classification in Corinth's work

The picture was taken in 1906, probably together with other pastel drawings, on August 2nd in a butcher's shop in Hohenlychen in Brandenburg , where Lovis Corinth was on vacation with Charlotte Berend-Corinth .

Corinth was known for pictures with slaughterhouse scenes and butcher shops, which he took up again and again during his early phase from 1892 to 1921. In doing so, he fell back on a subject that Rembrandt had also worked on with two pictures of slaughtered oxen.

  • In the slaughterhouse , 1893

  • Butcher shop in Schäftlarn on the Isar , 1897

  • Slaughtered ox , 1905

  • Butcher's shop , 1913

supporting documents

  1. ^ Slaughtered pig in the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
  2. ↑ a b c Barbara Butts: Slaughtered pig In: Peter-Klaus Schuster , Christoph Vitali, Barbara Butts (ed.): Lovis Corinth . Prestel Munich 1996; Pp. 336-337. ISBN 3-7913-1645-1 .

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