Charlotte Berend-Corinth
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Charlotte Berend-Corinth (* 25. Mai 1880; † 1969) was a female German painter and artist in the Berliner Secession and the wife of the painter Lovis Corinth.
[edit] Life
Charlotte Berend-Corinth studied fine arts at the Berliner Kunstgewerbemuseum taught by Eva Stort and Max Schäfer. From 1901 she was the first student at the private artists school of the painter Lovis Corinth, whom she served as an arts model too.
At March 26, 1903, she married Lovis Corinth and changed her name to Berend-Corinth. At October 13 the same year their son Thomas Corinth was born, the daughter Wilhelmine Corinth followed six years later at June 13, 1909.
Since 1906 Charlotte Berendt-Corinth showed her paintings at the Berliner Secession though she joined the Secession 1912 and did not leave it after the separation of the new Freie Secession lead by Max Liebermann when Lovis Corinth became the new head of it. She draw painted book illustrations for Max Pallenberg, Fritzi Massari, and Valeska Gert and painted portraits of Michael Bohnen, Werner Krauss, Paul Bildt, and Paul Graetz. In the 1920s she supported young artists from the theatres in Berlin. In 1919 Lovis Corinth bought a house in Urfeld at Walchensee were he and his wife could retire from the life in Berlin. Corinth here painted landscapes, portraits and still-lifes and more and more retired from the active arts scene. He died in 1925 at a journey to the Netherlands.
Charlotte Berend-Corinth emigrated in 1933 with her children to the United States of America and lived in New York. 1958 she published the book of the complete paintings of her husband Lovis Corinth, which went to be a standard and is in use until today in a new version of Béatrice Hernad from 1992. Charlotte Berendt-Corinth died in 1969.
[edit] Sources
- Rudolf Pfefferkorn: Die Berliner Secession. Eine Epoche deutscher Kunstgeschichte. Haude & Spenersche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Berlin 1972.
- Peter-Klaus Schuster, Christoph Vitali, Barbara Butts (Hrsg.): Lovis Corinth. Prestel, München 1996. ISBN 3-7913-1645-1
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| NAME | Berend-Corinth, Charlotte |
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| SHORT DESCRIPTION | female German painter and wife of Lovis Corinth |
| DATE OF BIRTH | [[ Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "{"]] 1880 |
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| DATE OF DEATH | [[ {{{3}}}]] 1969 |
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