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him do this. Sometimes he pulled his lip long and turned towards the light, scraping off the stubble, sometimes he rounded one cheek so that the razor glided over it more evenly. The Ohm had no need of this, for he wore a full beard. At this time they also took the opportunity to cut each other's hair. After the laborious business, the semi blond hair lay on the floor as if many
Simsons had had to let their locks down. After church, a better meal was served with a pewter mug of brown ale, and the sermon was harshly rehearsed, with hardly a good word said about the priest. Towards evening they said goodbye to each other with kisses and handshakes. The visitor got into the car and was followed for a long time until the carriage had disappeared behind the flower garden and behind Kaft's hill.
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on the recommendation of his teachers. The two paintings, each measuring 42 cm × 32 cm, remained with his relatives in
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Bärnreuther goes on to explain that "by including the interior in the depiction", Corinth opens the view "beyond the mental and physical appearance of the ageing man into the seclusion of his limited domestic sphere, which shows the sitter on the margins of society". She describes this society as
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At the time the painting was created, Lovis
Corinth's life was in upheaval. From the beginning of his studies in Munich, he tried to gain recognition in the Munich art scene, but found it difficult to establish himself there. At the end of the 1890s, he intensified his contacts with the painters
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The furniture in the room is only vaguely recognizable. To the right of the wooden chair is a waist-high chest of drawers or a table, the bright window behind the uncle ends at about the same height with a window sill and is lined with light-colored curtains, which are painted "in bright yellow"
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Brandenburg as a lodging guest of Richard Israel's family, where he also met with Leistikow. The Königsberg trip was immediately followed by a joint trip with Leistikow to Denmark. In 1900, Corinth painted several portraits, including one of his famous self-portraits. Among the people
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Charlotte Berend-Corinth. On the wall to the left of the sitter is a picture showing a person standing in front of a lake. The picture is signed and inscribed in several lines on the upper right-hand edge with "Mein Ohm 78 J. a Moterau bei Tapiau Juli 1900 Lovis Corinth".
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Alfred Kuhn published a pencil drawing from 1879 in his
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chair. The body is concealed by the gray skirt, contours are kept "vague". The face is turned towards the viewer and the painter, the light blue eyes are open and look directly at the painter and the viewer. It is framed by the thick gray hair and the strong
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exhibition in Berlin in 1913. In the same year, the painting was also shown at an art exhibition in Düsseldorf. In 1918, Corinth showed the painting again at the Berlin Secession and in 1923 at the
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in London organized commemorative exhibitions of the painting. In 1964 it was shown at the Gallery of Modern Art in New York, in 1967 at the Badischer Kunstverein in Karlsruhe, in 1976 at the
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painted by Corinth two years later. With both, Corinth succeeded "in making inroads into the depiction of social existence with the conception of the portrait as a gesture in social space".
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that these two paintings were the first works by Corinth that she had noted down together with the artist. She also points out that it is the same uncle who was portrayed in the
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