Portrait of the father Franz Heinrich Corinth with wine glass

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Portrait of the father Franz Heinrich Corinth with wine glass (Lovis Corinth)
Portrait of the father Franz Heinrich Corinth with wine glass
Lovis Corinth , 1883
Oil on canvas
107 × 88 cm
Municipal gallery in the Lenbachhaus

The portrait of the father Franz Heinrich Corinth with wine glass is a painting by the German painter Lovis Corinth . The picture is a portrait of his father and was made as one of Corinth's early works in Munich in 1883.

Image description

The painting shows Franz Heinrich Corinth, the artist's father, sitting on a chair at a table, in a frontal portrait on which he looks directly at the artist and viewer. He wears plain clothes, consisting of dark trousers with a dark waistcoat, a white shirt with a light collar tie and a dark coat. There is a gold watch chain above the vest, the end of which disappears under the coat. In his left hand, which is wearing a gold ring, he holds a cigar, while he rests his head on his right hand. The right elbow is supported on the table, on which there is a golden wine goblet and a red rose on a light blanket. A green wall forms the background.

The picture is signed and inscribed "Lovis Corinth, Munich 1883" in two lines on the upper right edge.

Background and origin

Lovis Corinth grew up in Tapiau, East Prussia, as the son of the tanner and farmer Franz Heinrich Corinth and his wife Wilhelmine Corinth. He was the only child they had together, but had five half-siblings on his mother's side. He received his school education from 1866 to 1873 in Königsberg and during this time he lived with his aunt before he returned to the local farm after the death of his mother. In 1876, after the farm and the tannery were sold, his father financed him painting training at the Königsberg Art Academy, and in 1880 he went to the Munich Academy of Fine Arts on a recommendation . Franz Heinrich Corinth stayed in Königsberg and lived on his possessions and became councilor of the city.

During Corinth's studies, his father visited him regularly and sometimes accompanied him on trips such as to Antwerp in 1884 . In 1883 he visited him in Munich, where Lovis Corinth portrayed him sitting at the table.

Portrait of the father Franz Heinrich Corinth , 1888
Father Franz Heinrich Corinth on the sick bed , 1888

In 1887 Corinth painted another portrait of his father, this time sitting on a sofa with a letter in hand, and in 1888, in which his father died, Corinth made two more portraits, one of which was a brownish one Skirt and on the second is depicted asleep on the sickbed.

reception

Lothar Brauner describes the painting as "a portrait of a respected man who is aware of his dignity - a portrait in the tradition of bourgeois portrait painting of the 1880s in Munich."

The picture also shows Lovis Corinth's great honor and love for his father, who made it possible for him to study painting. He himself wrote it in his autobiography: "My father, who had only attended the village school but was very intelligent, sought his highest endeavor to get his boy to the best school."

Exhibitions and provenance

The picture Portrait of the Father Franz Heinrich Corinth with Wine Glass was created in 1883 at the Art Academy in Munich after an interruption for the military service of his studies, which began in 1880, as one of Lovis Corinth's early works. It was owned by the art dealer Fritz Gurlitt and later by the Swiss painter Hermann Hirzel . Today it is owned by the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus , along with numerous other paintings by the artist .

The picture was only shown publicly for the first time in 1923, two years before Corinth's death, as part of an exhibition in the National Gallery in Berlin . Also here it was part of an exhibition in 1926 after Corinth's death. In 1936 the Kunsthalle Basel showed the picture and in 1950 it was on view in the Landesmuseum Hannover . Further exhibitions took place in 1958 in Wolfsburg, Basel, Hanover and Munich. It was shown in the Tate Gallery in London in 1959 and in the Neue Galerie der Stadt Linz in 1960. In 1967 it was part of an exhibition at the Badischer Kunstverein Karlsruhe and in 1975 in the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus . In 1996 and 1997 a traveling exhibition of Corinth's works took place, at which the picture was shown in the Haus der Kunst in Munich, the National Gallery in Berlin, the Saint Louis Art Museum in St. Louis (USA) and the Tate Gallery in London.

supporting documents

  1. ^ A b c Charlotte Berend-Corinth: Lovis Corinth. Catalog raisonné. Revised by Béatrice Hernad. Bruckmann Verlag, Munich 1958, 1992; BC 8a, p. 56, ISBN 3-7654-2566-4 .
  2. ↑ a b c d Lothar Brauner: Portrait of the father Franz Heinrich Corinth with wine glass In: Peter-Klaus Schuster , Christoph Vitali, Barbara Butts (ed.): Lovis Corinth. Prestel, Munich 1996, pp. 98-99, ISBN 3-7913-1645-1 .
  3. ^ Charlotte Berend-Corinth: Lovis Corinth. Catalog raisonné. Revised by Béatrice Hernad. Bruckmann Verlag, Munich 1958, 1992; BC 51, p. 62, ISBN 3-7654-2566-4 .
  4. ^ Charlotte Berend-Corinth: Lovis Corinth. Catalog raisonné. Revised by Béatrice Hernad. Bruckmann Verlag, Munich 1958, 1992; BC 56, p. 63, ISBN 3-7654-2566-4 .
  5. ^ Charlotte Berend-Corinth: Lovis Corinth. Catalog raisonné. Revised by Béatrice Hernad. Bruckmann Verlag, Munich 1958, 1992; BC 57, p. 63, ISBN 3-7654-2566-4 .
  6. ^ Lovis Corinth : autobiography. Hirzel, Leipzig 1926, p. 62.

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