Charlotte Berend-Corinth
Charlotte Berend- Corinth ( born May 25, 1880 in Berlin, † January 10, 1967 in New York City ) was a German artist of the Berlin Secession, younger sister of writer Alice Berend and wife of the painter Lovis Corinth.
Life
Early years and education
Charlotte Berend, was born as the second daughter of the Jewish cotton importer Ernst Berend and his wife Hedwig, born Gumpertz. Although initially, however, her father agreed because of their drawing talent into an art course his daughter. 1898 she graduated from the examination for admission to the state art school in the monastery, and studied at Maximilian Schäfer. A year later she went to school at the Museum of Decorative Arts Berlin, and led her studies with Eva Stort and Ludwig Manzel.
Your life with Lovis Corinth
In 1901 she became the first student teaching with Lovis Corinth, who founded a private " school of painting for women," and she also has regularly from 1902 model. Already in the following year, on March 26, 1903 married Lovis Corinth and Charlotte Berend, where she opted for the double name Berend- Corinth. In 1904 ( baptism date: April 4, 1905) was their son Thomas Corinth on the world. The daughter Wilhelmine Corinth followed five years later on June 13, 1909.
Since 1906 presented Charlotte Berend- Corinth their pictures in the Berlin Secession, was itself but only in 1912 a member of the Artists' Association and remained even after the separation of the Secession continues in the led at the time by Lovis Corinth Secession. She elaborated her painting and began about 1909 with various graphic works in the form of lithographic portfolio works as the first and book illustrations. After the first stroke Corinth 1911 she interrupted her work and devoted himself to the care of her husband. In 1919 Lovis Corinth purchased land Urfeld am Walchensee, on which was built a house his wife Charlotte. Corinth wrote: " Of all the things you've done for me, your greatest achievement was the construction of our house but am Walchensee ". The house became the refuge of the family, to the Corinth produced his famous Walchensee images, portraits and still lifes.
After the death of Corinth
Lovis Corinth died on 17 July 1925 at the age of 67 years. After the death of her husband was devoted to Charlotte Berend- Corinth, especially the sighting and order of his estate. In 1926 she published the edited her autobiography of her late husband, she also organized the first retrospective exhibition in the Old National Gallery in the same year and began work on the catalog raisonné of his paintings. She was admitted to the board of the Secession in 1924 and was also a jury member. In the 1920s, she supported mainly people of the Berlin theater scene and produced portfolios and book illustrations for Max Pallenberg, Fritzi Massary and Valeska Gert and portrayed among others Michael Bohnen, Werner Krauss, Paul Bildt and Paul Graetz.
In 1927 she opened a school of painting in itself Klopstockstraße 48, of the same address at which even Corinth had his school. She made subsequently also a number of trips for study purposes to Italy, Turkey, Egypt and Denmark. Most of the thirties she was residing with short breaks in Italy, 1936, she became friends with an Italian named Fernando and had this probably also having an affair. There she developed her very own style of landscape watercolor painting, with whom she was also invited to American exhibitions. In 1936 she had her first collective exhibitions in the U.S., including New York City, Davenport and Scranton. She was also to international exhibitions at the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh, a gallery in New York, invited.
Relocation to New York
Since her son Thomas was a resident of New York since 1931, she followed him in 1939 from Switzerland to the United States. However, it was only a few months in New York, then moved to Santa Barbara in California. She lived there from 1940 to 1945, became close friends with Donald Bear, director of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art and painted numerous landscapes in California. In 1945, she moved back to New York and stayed there, even Wilhelmina and her husband, who had lived through the Second World War in Hamburg, retired in 1948 there. Her work has passed since then, mainly from landscape watercolors, still lifes and portraits, and it could run numerous exhibitions in American private galleries and museums.
In 1948 she published her autobiographical book My Life with Lovis Corinth, she had already completed in 1937. 1950 was followed by When I was a child, in which they reflected their youth in Berlin. The following year in 1951 and 1954, she traveled to Europe, including Germany and Austria. In 1956, she lived for a short time for a study visit to the Caribbean Islands, the same year she traveled to Europe again, and put his own watercolors Art Office Berlin- Reinickendorf. The following year, her works have been exhibited in the Städtische Galerie in Munich.
In 1958 she published the 100th birthday Lovis Corinth's catalog raisonné The paintings by Lovis Corinth, which is considered today as the standard work and was reworked in 1992 by Béatrice Hernad. She traveled to Germany and published in the same year another memoir titled Lovis. 1960 and 1961 she again had a number of exhibitions in the U.S. and German private galleries. In 1967 she died - in the same year her work has been shown at the National Gallery in Berlin; Charlotte Berend- Corinth had on the concept of the show still worked, which was carried to her death memorial exhibition.
Writings
- Max Pallenberg. 9 original lithographs. Oesterheld & Co., Berlin, 1918.
- Fritzi Massary. 6 original lithographs. Gurlitt Press, Berlin, 1919.
- Anita Berber. 8 original lithographs. Gurlitt Press, Berlin, 1919.
- Valeska Gert. 8 original lithographs. Introduction by Oscar Bie. Bischoff, Munich 1920.
- My life with Lovis Corinth. Hamburg 1948
- When I was a child. Hamburg 1950
- Paintings by Lovis Corinth, list of works, Munich 1958
- Lovis. Munich 1958