From July 18 to November 2, 2025, the Nationalgalerie – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin presents the exhibition “In the sights! Lovis Corinth, the Nationalgalerie and the ‘Degenerate Art’ campaign”
Supply: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin · Picture: Lovis Corinth: “Das Trojanische Pferd”, 1924
To mark the one centesimal anniversary of Lovis Corinth’s loss of life, the Alte Nationalgalerie is holding a concentrated exhibition on the destiny of the works of the artist and his spouse, the painter Charlotte Berend-Corinth, within the assortment of the Nationalgalerie. The exhibition focuses on the totally different provenances of the work: the Nationalgalerie’s holdings are supplemented by work that had been taken to different museums because of the Nationwide Socialist “Degenerate Art” marketing campaign and have now been quickly returned particularly for the exhibition.
Lovis Corinth (1858-1925) is taken into account, alongside Max Liebermann and Max Slevogt as an important representatives of German Impressionism. With over twenty oil work, a few of them large-format, the Nationalgalerie owns an intensive and vital assortment of works by the painter. The paths of those objects into the Nationalgalerie’s assortment are, nevertheless usually characterised by loss and partial return: among the work had been confiscated as “degenerate” in 1937, however had been surprisingly returned in 1939, whereas others might solely be reacquired a lot later. Some weren’t confiscated, whereas others had been offered on the time and at the moment are in Germany and overseas. To compensate for these losses, additional work by Corinth and his spouse Charlotte Berend-Corinth (1880-1967) had been acquired in each the Federal Republic of Germany and the GDR after 1945. Born in East Prussia, the artist moved from Munich to Berlin in 1901. to Berlin in 1901. After struggling a stroke in 1911, his brushwork turned considerably extra expressive. When he died of pneumonia on July 17, 1925 of pneumonia, he was on a visit to Amsterdam, the place he as soon as once more to view the work of Frans Hals and Rembrandt.
