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Lovis Corinth. Then came Berlin!
Major show on Lovis Corinth's rise in Berlin after 1900: his expressive painting, his women's painting school, his theatre work and his domestic circle.
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A young woman in a flower-trimmed hat holds two cats in Corinth's Young Woman with Cats (1904), lent by the Hilti Art Foundation. It is one of about 80 of his paintings here, most of them loans, about what happened after he left Munich for Berlin in 1900.
The Berliner Zeitung's Ingeborg Ruthe reads it as a success story: Munich's Secession turned down his Salomé, Berlin's took him in, and here he "painted more freely, brushed more wildly". Six chapters cover his actor portraits and theatre work for Max Reinhardt, the painting school where he taught mainly women (some 30 works by students and contemporaries, Charlotte Berend-Corinth among them), and his household. In the staircase hall you walk past his Katzenellenbogen cycle, Odyssey and Orlando Furioso scenes painted for a villa, which Ruthe calls intoxication, ecstasy and Dionysian lust.
Tickets are €14 (€7 reduced, free under 18), €7 for everyone on the first Wednesday of the month, and free on 6 December and 3 January. Closed Tuesdays.
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The Katzenellenbogen villa cycle fills the staircase hall, and a chapter goes to the painting school Corinth ran for women. Ingeborg Ruthe (Berliner Zeitung) says that in Berlin he "painted more freely, brushed more wildly".
Look for
Young Woman with Cats (1904)
A woman in a flower-trimmed hat holds two cats, on loan from the Hilti Art Foundation.
Portrait of Charlotte Berend in a White Dress (1902)
Corinth's portrait of Charlotte Berend, who also appears in the show as a painter among his students and contemporaries.
Self-Portrait without Collar
Corinth's self-portrait from his first Berlin years, painted in spontaneous, expressive brushwork.
Self-Portrait as Standard-Bearer (1911)
Corinth in shining armour, chin pushed forward and chest out, with a flag on his shoulder bearing a hissing dragon and a large heart.
Bacchant (1913)
An ecstatic figure in a leopard-skin loincloth, holding a tambourine and a whip, from the museum's own collection.
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- Lovis Corinth. Then came Berlin!© Hilti Art Foundation, Photo: Günter König
- Between the Lines: Daniel Libeskind and the Jewish Museum BerlinCourtesy of Jewish Museum Berlin
- The Opposite of NowCourtesy of Jewish Museum Berlin
- The Holocaust – What Did the Germans Know?© Medienzentrum Hanau Bildarchiv
- Berlinische GalerieChristoph Rehbach / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Jewish Museum BerlinMarek Śliwecki / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Topography of TerrorStiftung Topographie des Terrors / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 DE
- Gropius BauManfred Brückels / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Deutsches TechnikmuseumSpyrosdrakopoulos / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0