The Valley, from Early Spring in the Mountains
Lovis Corinth
published 1922
Medium
Lithograph on buff wove paper
Dimensions
Plate: 32.1 × 42.9 cm (12 11/16 × 16 15/16 in.); Sheet: 45.9 × 59.5 cm (18 1/8 × 23 7/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
84882
About the Artist
Lovis Corinth · 1858–1925
Lovis Corinth, born Franz Heinrich Louis on July 21, 1858, in Tapiau, East Prussia (now Gvardeysk, Russia), to a tanner father, displayed prodigious drawing talent from childhood. He began formal training at the Königsberg Academy in 1876, then moved to the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich from 1880 to 1884, studying under Ludwig von Löfftz and briefly Franz von Defregger, where he absorbed a Realis...