Minneapolis Institute of Art

Nude Girl

Lovis Corinth

Date

1886

Medium

Oil on canvas

Department

European Art

Institution

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Born in East Prussia, Lovis Corinth spent almost the entirety of his training and career in Munich and Berlin. However, from 1884-87 the artist - who aspired to be a history painter - studied in Paris at the Académie Julian under the two celebrated artists, Tony Robert-Fleury and Adolphe William Bouguereau. Their teaching focused on life drawing - an approach that was particularly suited to the large figural compositions of history paintings. This life study is one of approximately twenty paintings - mostly nudes - that survive from Corinth's Parisian sojourn. Germany, Europe

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