CORINTH, LOVIS (1858-1925), German painter, was born at Tapiau, East Prussia, on July 21, 1858, the son of a tanner. With Walter Leistikow and Max Liebermann he became one of the main supporters of the Berlin Secessionists. The last years of his life he spent, for the greater part, in his cottage on the Walchensee in Bavaria, where some of his most beautiful pictures of still life and landscape were painted. Corinth died July 18, 1925 at Zandvoort, Holland.
Among his most famous pictures are his portraits of Graf E. Keyserling (1896), Pfarrer Moser (1899), Max Liebermann (1899), Peter Hille (1902), Konrad Ansorge (1904), Rudolf Rittner as Florian Seyer (1907), and of himself (1918). Corinth wrote: Das Erlernen der Malerei (1909) ; Legenden aus dem Kiunstlerleben (1909); Das Leben Walter Leistikows (1910). See Alfred Kuhn, Lovis Corinth (1925).