Aus Dem Tiergarten (From the Tiergarten)
1920
Medium
drypoint in black on wove paper
Dimensions
plate: 25 × 32 cm (9 13/16 × 12 5/8 in.) sheet: 43.6 × 40.5 cm (17 3/16 × 15 15/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen
Accession Number
2012.92.758
Art Historical Context
Lovis Corinth's *Aus Dem TiergartenFrom the Tiergarten, created in 1920, the essence of Berlin's expansive Tiergarten park during the early Weimar Republic. As a leading figure in German Expressionism and a founder of the Berlin Secession Corinth had shifted from Impressionist influences to bolder, more emotive styles by this late stage in his career. Having suffered a stroke in 1911, he turned increasingly to printmaking, producing works that reflected his direct, vigorous observation of urban nature amid post-World War I recovery. This drypoint etching on wove paper exemplifies Corinth's ma...
About the Artist
Lovis Corinth · 1858–1925
Lovis Corinth, born Franz Heinrich Louis on July 21, 1858, in Tapiau, East Prussia (now Gvardeysk, Russia), to a tanner father, displayed prodigious drawing talent from childhood. He began formal training at the Königsberg Academy in 1876, then moved to the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich from 1880 to 1884, studying under Ludwig von Löfftz and briefly Franz von Defregger, where he absorbed a Realis...