Handwerker Gallery Newsletter
Winter 1999 – Volume 1, Number 4
From the Permanent Collection
Lovis Corinth,
William Tell,
lithograph, 8" x 11.5", date unknown
The German artist Lovis Corinth was born in Tapiau, East
Prussia, in 1858. Trained as a realist painter, he was primarily interested
in religious, mythological, and historical subjects and devoted much of
his work to them. The original print of William Tell in the Handwerker's
collection clearly testifies to this preoccupation. Corinth also painted
erotic studio nudes and a series of self-portraits, moving from a realistic
and plenairist idiom to a more expressionistic one toward the end of his
life. He died in 1925 in Zandvoort, Netherlands.
If you would like to view Corinth's William Tell, please
contact Jelena Stojanovi´c at the gallery to make an appointment to do
so. She can be reached at (607) 274-3548 or jstojanovic@ithaca.edu.
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