1925 in amsterdam (5 Ergebnisse)

"Mother's Joys" high-quality facsimile/reprint in giclée print with white border on 250g Schwarzwaldmühle art print cardboard (30x21cm) based on a lithograph by Lovis Corinth published in Berlin in 1911.

"Archer" high-quality facsimile in giclée print with white border on 250g Schwarzwaldmühle art print cardboard (30x21cm) based on a lithograph published in Berlin in 1920.

"In the Column Hall" high-quality facsimile in giclee print with white border on 250g Schwarzwaldmühle art print cardboard (30x21cm) based on a lithograph by Lovis Corinth published in Berlin in 1911.

"Laughing Girl" high-quality facsimile in giclée print with white border on 250g Schwarzwaldmühle art print cardboard (30x21cm) based on a lithograph by Lovis Corinth published in Berlin in 1911.

[Farbenfrisches Blatt aus der Folge von sinnlichen Illustrationen zu "Das Buch Judith" (The Book of Judith). "Alles meilenweit ab von der landläufigen Bibelillustration, aber den wahren Inhalt der morgenländischen Geschichte tiefer packend als je ein früherer Illustrator" schrieb der Kunstkritiker Max Osborn.] " Lovis Corinth combined naturalism with expressive evocations of a romanticized Orient in this lavishly illustrated version of the Book of Judith from the Bible. His twenty-two color lithographs, which included eight full-page dramatic plates as well as playful vignettes and ornamental initials, highlight pivotal scenes from Martin Luther's translation of the story. In this interpretation, Judith, a chaste widow, saves her people by beheading the sleeping Holofernes, whose army has besieged her city, Bethulia. Corinth's sensuous use of color heightens the narrative's emotional power and theatricality. In the key scene, Corinth places Judith, blade raised above Holofernes, in front of a blood-red curtain. In an illustration titled Victory Dance, a red-headed woman leads a group of revelers in ecstatic celebration of the freedom gained through Judith's bloody act. The story was enormously popular in Germany in the early twentieth century as a symbol of female heroism but also, more darkly, as an allegory of the dangers of female empowerment.…