Lovis Corinth Figurative Prints

Lovis Corinth (1858 Tapiau - 1925 Zandvoort), Rudolf von Rittner as Florian Geyer, 1924 (Müller 854), drypoint signed in pencil. 20.4 × 14.2 (plate size), 37.7 × 30.6 cm (sheet size). Published by Karl Nierendorf, Berlin. Framed in a passepartout. - Strong, precise impression. Frame a little bit rubbed and with two small damages. About the artwork The knight is a leitmotif in Lovis Corinth's work, culminating in his Self-Portrait in Armour of 1914. Of all the paintings on this theme, Corinth most often depicted Florian Geyer. Descended from a Franconian noble family, he fought for the freedom of the peasants during the peasant wars of the Reformation, first diplomatically and then militarily, leading the legendary Schwarzen Haufen (Black Troops). The name derives from the black uniforms with which Geyer dressed the peasants willing to fight. During the Napoleonic occupation, the freedom fighter Florian Geyer was sung about by the Romantics, and the free corps Die Schwarze Schaar, founded in 1813 by Major von Lützow, succeeded the Schwarzer Haufen. It was against this historical background that Gerhard Hauptmann wrote the revolutionary drama Florian Geyer, which premiered at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin in 1896. While the actor Rudolf Rittner, who would later appear in Fritz Lang's films, initially played the role of Schäferhans, he took over the leading role in the new production at Berlin's Lessing Theatre in 1904, again directed by Emil Lessing, which established his fame as an actor. Hauptmann himself praised the acting. He wrote to Hugo von Hofmannsthal: "It went quite well with Florian Geyer. In any case, I had the great pleasure of seeing the play again in an admirable performance". And Lovis Corinth was so taken with Rittner's performance that he painted an oil portrait of him in the role of Florian Geyer in 1906. After two further graphic versions in 1915 and 1920/21, Corinth returned to the painting a year before his death and almost twenty years after the oil painting to create this graphic version in 1924. Even the inscription in the picture was taken over. This proves all the more the importance of the knight and freedom fighter for Corinth's self-image. The oil painting, in particular, proclaims the single-minded determination to fight to the last for the values defended, manifested in the oil painting by the tattered flag held out to the enemy. There is a parallel with Rainer Maria Rilke's 1899 story The Cornet, in which the protagonist goes down with the flag that he first saved at the risk of his life. Consequently, the portrait is also a self-portrait, and the knight's armour is not an academic costume or an ironic refraction, but an expression of Corinth's self-image, which also includes his self-representation as an artist. The Secession poster...

LOVIS CORINTH (German 1858 -1925) TELL AND HIS SON IN FRONT OF THE HAT "(Wilhelm) Tell Und Sein Sohn Vor Dem Hut" 1923 -5, (Muller 781) Lithograph with coloring, signed in pencil. This is one of 25, signed, on Japan paper Total edition 200. Image 9 1/8 x 7 1/4 inches. Full Sheet 15 x 11 1/2 inches with deckle edge. In good condition. From the portfolio "William Tell". A portfolio of 13 signed lithographs including the title page. Published in 1925. Publisher Karl Nierendorf, Berlin, Printer:A. Rogall, Berlin. (Müller 775-787 - this is the 7th one. There are 25, signed, on Japan paper as offered, Total edition 200, including 75, signed, on "Bütten" paper and 100, signed, on copperplate printing paper) Below is from the Museum of Modern Art: Heather Hess, German Expressionist Digital Archive Project, German Expressionism: Works from the Collection. 2011. Lovis Corinth often cloaked allusions to contemporary politics in historical dress. In these thirteen lithographs for an illustrated edition of Friedrich Schiller...

LOVIS CORNTH (German 1858 - 1925) JOSEPH und POTIPHARS WEIB 1, 1914 (S. 168) Drypoint, Unsigned, platemark 7 3//8" X 9 5/8 " on good watermarked laid paper. Full margins, deckl...

Venuswagen is an original modern rare book written by Johann Christoph Friedrich (von) Schiller (1759 – 1805) and illustrated by Lovis Corinth (21 July 1858 – 17 July 1925) in 1919....

Gullivers Reise is an original modern rare book written by Jonathan Swift (Dublin, 1667 – Dublin, 1745) and illustrated by Lovis Corinth (21 July 1858 –...

Lovis Corinth (German, 1859-1925) Rare Etching c.1920 Fine etching by noted German Expressionist artist Lovis Corinth. This striking imag...

Tod und Jungling is an original lithograph, realized by Lovis Corinth in 1921, hand-signed and numbered n°33/95. Included a wooden frame. In very good conditions. Here the artworks represented a man with a strong expression of lines drawn, who has caught with his hand a skeleton, interestingly the skeleton has a sense of fear although the man is free of any frightening emotions. Lovis Corinth (1858-1925) was a German artist and writer whose mature work as a painter and printmaker realized a synthesis of impressionism and expressionism. known for his dramatic figurative...