Woodland Path
1890s
Medium
pastel on laid paper, laid down on cardboard
Dimensions
overall: 42.2 x 51.2 cm (16 5/8 x 20 3/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Anonymous Gift
Accession Number
2005.50.1
Art Historical Context
### Woodland Path by Lovis Corinth Step into the tranquil embrace of *Woodland Path*, a captivating pastel landscape by German artist Lovis Corinth from the 1890s. Created on laid paper and carefully laid down on cardboard, drawing measures 42.2 x 51.2 cm and exemplifies Corinth's early mastery of intimate, atmospheric scenes. At the National Gallery of Art an anonymous gift, it visitors to wander a shaded forest trail, where dappled light filters through leaves, evoking the quiet beauty of nature. Corinth, a pivotal figure bridging Impressionism and German Expressionism, drew inspiration fr...
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...