--- type: exposition title: Lovis Corinth language: en url: "https://www.belvedere.at/en/lovis-corinth" --- # Lovis Corinth ## Life, a Celebration! ![Lovis Corinth, The Herzogstand on Walchensee in the snow, 1922](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/header_cropped_1920x480_fp/public/media-directories/Lovis%20Corinth_4b.jpg.webp?itok=1u6O9RGK) **Duration:** 18 June 2021 - 3 October 2021 The many facets of Lovis Corinth: Both the classification of his work in the canon of art history and the ambivalences of his intense life continue to raise questions – who was this artist who, across epochs and styles, so effectively captured the essence of life in his paintings? Lovis Corinth was a founding member of the Munich Secession. Together with Walter Leistikow and Max Liebermann, he was one of the leading figures and first chairman of the Berlin Secession. His artistic work equates to what might be called a leap into modernism: beginning in the 19th century, he embraced all the great “isms” of the decades that followed – from Realism to Impressionism to Expressionism – yet he never fully committed to any of them. His paintings throughout, though, maintained the unmistakable stamp of his irrepressible vitality. The motifs of his works are the starting point for the exhibition to trace the artistic career of Lovis Corinth and explain his unique position in art history: The eroticism thematized in nude portraits of his young wife at the beginning of his marriage, which gradually morphed into the theme of mother and child; the children growing up and family as leitmotif; but also vanitas symbolism, which he repeatedly incorporated in his slaughterhouse paintings and hid among his floral still lifes; and, finally, as the culmination of his oeuvre, the landscape paintings of the Walchensee. This exhibition will subsequently travel to the Saarlandmuseum in Saarbrücken in November 2021. A joint exhibition presented by the Belvedere and the Saarlandmuseum – Moderne Galerie Curated by Alexander Klee. ### [Upper Belvedere](https://www.belvedere.at/en/visit/upper-belvedere) **Opening hours:** Monday to Sunday, 9 am - 6 pm **Address:** Upper Belvedere, 1030 Vienna ([Getting there]()) [Tickets](https://www.belvedere.at/en/tickets?location%5B0%5D=1) ##### In cooperation with - [Die Presse](https://www.diepresse.com/) - [Parnass](https://www.parnass.at/) ## Impressions - ![ein barocker Ausstellungsraum mit Bildern an der Wand — Ausstellungsansicht Lovis Corinth. Das Leben, ein Fest! — Foto: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Wien](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/2021-06/OB%20Corinth%20Presse-19.jpg.webp?itok=puLzRi3t) - ![ein barocker Ausstellungsraum mit Bildern an der Wand — Ausstellungsansicht Lovis Corinth. Das Leben, ein Fest! — Foto: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Wien](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/2021-06/OB%20Corinth%20Presse-6.jpg.webp?itok=M-VLf2kF) - ![ein barocker Ausstellungsraum mit Bildern an der Wand — Ausstellungsansicht Lovis Corinth. Das Leben, ein Fest! — Foto: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Wien](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/2021-06/OB%20Corinth%20Presse-2.jpg.webp?itok=9mUBX3cB) - ![ein barocker Ausstellungsraum mit Bildern an der Wand — Ausstellungsansicht Lovis Corinth. Das Leben, ein Fest! — Foto: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Wien](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/2021-06/OB%20Corinth%20Presse-9.jpg.webp?itok=3dGODY2i) - ![ein barocker Ausstellungsraum mit Bildern an der Wand — Ausstellungsansicht Lovis Corinth. Das Leben, ein Fest! — Foto: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Wien](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/2021-06/OB%20Corinth%20Presse-11.jpg.webp?itok=CAYQiOLG) - ![ein barocker Ausstellungsraum mit Bildern an der Wand — Ausstellungsansicht Lovis Corinth. Das Leben, ein Fest! — Foto: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Wien](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/2021-06/OB%20Corinth%20Presse-17.jpg.webp?itok=rVEFPrji) - ![ein barocker Ausstellungsraum mit Bildern an der Wand — Ausstellungsansicht Lovis Corinth. Das Leben, ein Fest! — Foto: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Wien](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/2021-06/OB%20Corinth%20Presse-23.jpg.webp?itok=gCfmNyrt) ## Exhibited Artworks - ![Lovis Corinth, Dame am Goldfischbassin — Lovis Corinth, Woman by a Goldfish Tank, 1911 — Photo: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/full_content_width_no_crop/public/2021-06/1829%20Presse_2.jpg.webp?itok=FQJGLaJo) - ![Lovis Corinth, Herbert Eulenberg — Lovis Corinth, Herbert Eulenberg, 1924 — Photo: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/full_content_width_no_crop/public/2021-06/2884%20Presse_2.jpg.webp?itok=t-iGhHM3) - ![Lovis Corinth, Die Waffen des Mars — Lovis Corinth, The Weapons of Mars, 1910 — Photo: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/full_content_width_no_crop/public/2021-06/3792%20Presse_0.jpg.webp?itok=9h3Jy6-S) - ![Lovis Corinth, Tanzender Derwisch, 1904 — Lovis Corinth, Dancing Dervish, 1904 — Buchheim Museum der Phantasie, Bernried am Starnberger See, Photo: Nikolaus Steglich, Starnberg](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/full_content_width_no_crop/public/2021-06/Corinth_Tanzender%20Derwisch_small.jpg.webp?itok=S9TDa6Td) - ![Lovis Corinth, The Herzogstand on Walchensee in the snow, 1922 — © Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/full_content_width_no_crop/public/media-directories/Lovis%20Corinth_4b.jpg.webp?itok=62v96340) - ![Lovis Corinth, Liegender weiblicher Akt, 1907 — Lovis Corinth, Lying female Act, 1907 — © Belvedere, Vienna, Photo: Johannes Stoll](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/full_content_width_no_crop/public/2021-04/3809%20Prese.jpg.webp?itok=9mrPkdUP) - ![Lovis Corinth, Die Sängerin Frieda Halbe, 1905 — Lovis Corinth, The Singer Frieda Halbe, 1905 — © Belvedere, Vienna, Photo: Johannes Stoll](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/full_content_width_no_crop/public/2021-04/3837%20Presse.jpg.webp?itok=o-YD_dkb) - ![Lovis Corinth, Walchensee, Blick auf Wetterstein — Lovis Corinth, Walchensee, Lake Walchen, View of the Wetterstein, 1921 — Saarlandmuseum – Moderne Galerie, Saarbrücken, Photo: Tom Gundelwein](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/full_content_width_no_crop/public/2021-06/Ex%2048034.jpg.webp?itok=RKv3kq1R) - ![Lovis Corinth, Tiroler Landschaft mit Brücke, 1913 — Lovis Corinth, Tyrolean Landscape with Bridge, 1913 — © Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/full_content_width_no_crop/public/2021-04/2885%20Presse.jpg.webp?itok=JhN08wk-) ## Video ## Smartify ![Mann steht vor einem Bild mit dem Handy in der Hand — Photo: Ouriel Morgensztern / Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/full_content_width_no_crop/public/2021-06/BEL_Sammlung_20200930_OurielMorgensztern_182.jpg.webp?itok=GxJExO6O) ### Explore the exhibition with Smartify Unleash the stories behind the works with our Smartify app. Immerse yourself in the world of Lovis Corinth and enjoy the audio tour at a price of € 1,99 directly on your smartphone. Here's how it works: - Go to Apple or Android webstores to download the app for free. - Open the app and hold your smartphone camera up to the artworks to ‘scan’ them. - Download the audio tour directly to your smartphone by using the in-app purchase function. Have fun! ![Download im Apple App Store](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/media-directories/logo-apple-appstore.png) ![Download im Google Play Store](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/media-directories/logo-google-playstore.png)