Charlotte Berend-Corinth
Charlotte Berend-Corinth (May 25 1880 – 1969) was a female German painter and artist in the Berliner Secession and the wife of the painter Lovis Corinth.
Life
Charlotte Berend studied fine arts at the Berliner Kunstgewerbemuseum taught by Eva Stort and Max Schäfer. From 1901 she was the first student at the private art school of the painter Lovis Corinth, who fell in love with her. She became his model for a number of paintings, including Portrait of Charlotte Berend in a White Dress (seen at right). On March 26, 1903, she married Lovis Corinth and changed her name to Berend-Corinth. On October 13 the same year their son Thomas Corinth was born, and their daughter Wilhelmine Corinth followed six years later on June 13, 1909.
Beginning in 1906, Charlotte Berend-Corinth showed her paintings at the Berliner Secession, and she joined the Secession in 1912 and did not leave it after the separation of the new Freie Secession led by Max Liebermann when Lovis Corinth became the new head of it. She draw painted book illustrations for Max Pallenberg, Fritzi Massari, and Valeska Gert and painted portraits of Michael Bohnen, Werner Krauss, Paul Bildt, and Paul Graetz. In the 1920s she supported young artists from the theatres in Berlin. In 1919 Lovis Corinth bought a house in Urfeld at Walchensee were he and his wife could retire from the life in Berlin. Corinth here painted landscapes, portraits and still-lifes and more and more retired from the active arts scene. He died in 1925 during a journey to the Netherlands.
Charlotte Berend-Corinth emigrated in 1933 with her children to the United States of America and lived in New York. 1958 she published the book of the complete paintings of her husband Lovis Corinth, which went to be a standard and is in use until today in a new version of Béatrice Hernad from 1992. Charlotte Berendt-Corinth died in 1969.
Sources
- Pfefferkorn, Rudolf (1972). Die Berliner Secession. Eine Epoche deutscher Kunstgeschichte. Berlin: Haude & Spenersche Verlagsbuchhandlung.
- Corinth, L., Schuster, P.-K., Vitali, C., & Butts, B. (1996). Lovis Corinth. Munich: Prestel. ISBN 3791316826