Lovis Corinth
(Tapiau, Ostpreußen 1858 - 1925 Zandvoort)
Portrait Franz Lilienthal, 1889
oil on canvas
100 x 72 cm
signed and dated upper right: “Lovis Corinth/1889”
EXHIBITIONS:
Lovis Corinth, Kunsthalle Beyer & Sohn, Leipzig 1903
Lovis Corinth - Ausstellung von Gemälden und Aquarellen zu seinem Gedächtnis, Nationalgalerie Berlin, Berlin 1926, S. 23, Nr. 20
Impressionismus in Leipzig, 1900-1914: Liebermann, Slevogt, Corinth, Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig, 2019, p. 33, cat. no.. 2
LITERATURE:
Charlotte Berend-Corinth, Die Gemälde von Lovis Corinth, Munich 1958, no. 62, ill. p.. 294
PROVENANCE:
Alfred Odenheimer (1882-1966), Emmendingen, Baden-Württemberg, then Los Angeles, (Odenheimer Leaf Tobacco), see Letter from Charlotte Berend-Corinth (6.3.1943)
Private Collection, Southern Germany
The sitter is Franz Lilienthal, a friend of the artist from youth, whom Lovis Corinth referred to in his memoirs as "Blumenthal".