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Fan Design [recto]

Lovis Corinth

probably 1906

Fan Design [recto] by Lovis Corinth

Medium

graphite on green paper

Dimensions

overall (lunette): 24.1 x 46.8 cm (9 1/2 x 18 7/16 in.)

Classification

Drawing

Department

CG-W

Museum

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Credit

Julius S. Held Collection

Accession Number

1984.1.2.a

About the Artist

Lovis Corinth · 18581925

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...

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