German Painter, 1858-1925
German painter and writer. He grew up on his family's farm and tannery. As a child he showed interest in art, taking informal lessons in drawing from a local carpenter and caricaturing his primary school teachers. Corinth's father sent him to secondary school in the nearby city of K?nigsberg (now Kaliningrad), where he lived with his widowed aunt. A superstitious woman fond of story-telling, she possessed what Corinth later described as a coarse temperament and an unrestrained, 'demonic' humour. These qualities and his aunt's bohemian acquaintances, including fortune-tellers and soothsayers, fascinated the young Corinth, accustomed to his more reserved parents. Related Paintings of Lovis Corinth :. | view of Blick auf den Kohlbrand | Walchensee bei Mondschein | Die Waffen des | Orientalischer Teppichhandler | Junimond | Related Artists: Jakob Issaks Swanenburgh 1571-1638
Alexander Benois 1856-1933
Hindu painter Richard Ettinghausen believes this work to have been painted in Agra in about 1625