From patriotism and optimism, the war took Corinth into depression that was only relieved when he got out of Berlin into the countryside.
Corinth
Self-portraits during his recovery show how he was changing style to Expressionism, oddities with depth, Odysseus battling with the suitors, Ariadne on Naxos, and Joseph with Potiphar’s wife.
His battle to paint again after his major stroke illustrated in Bordighera, rough sea in a storm, Samson blinded, and mirror-play.
Homeric Laughter at Venus and Mars caught together, birthday paintings, an unusual portrait of a merchant of wild animals, and more.
The childhood of Zeus, the capture of Samson, Bacchante couple, two Temptations of St Anthony, and a portrait of the artist and his growing family.
He meets and becomes engaged to a young student at his art school, painting a double-portrait after Rembrandt, and a raucous collage of human emotion as Ulysses fights the beggar.
Among the founders of the Berlin Secession, he moved from Munich to Berlin in 1901, after establishing himself as ‘the painter of flesh’ with a brilliant painting of Salome.
He moved to Munich, second only to Paris at the time. There he co-founded the Secession, experimented in his painting, and drank lots of red wine and champagne.
Born near Königsberg/Kaliningrad, he trained there and in Munich before studying at the Académie Julian in Paris. Prolific in all genres, he’s one of the greatest modern German painters.
An artist’s workshop with his assistant, several sculptors working with their models, watchmakers in Madrid, an assistant in a print shop, artisans, tinker and repairer.
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