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To mark the 100th anniversary of Lovis Corinth’s death, the Alte Nationalgalerie is holding a concentrated exhibition on the fate of the works of the artist and his wife, the painter Charlotte Berend-Corinth, in the Nationalgalerie’s collection. The exhibition focuses on the different provenances of the paintings: The Nationalgalerie’s holdings are supplemented by paintings that ended up in other museums as a result of the National Socialist “Degenerate Art” campaign and have now been temporarily returned especially for the exhibition.
Alongside Max Liebermann and Max Slevogt, Lovis Corinth (1858-1925) is considered the most important representative of German Impressionism. With over twenty oil paintings, some of them large-format, the Nationalgalerie has an extensive and important collection of works by the painter. However, the paths of these objects into the Nationalgalerie’s collection are often characterized by loss and partial return: some paintings were confiscated in 1937 as “degenerate”, but were surprisingly returned in 1939, others could only …
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Image above: Lovis Corinth, Frau mit Rosenhut, 1912, Öl auf Leinwand, 60 x 50 cm, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie /Fotograf: Reinhard Saczewski.
