Charlotte Berend-Corinth (25 May 1880 – 10 January 1967) was a female

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painter and artist in the Berliner Secession. She was married to German painter

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Charlotte Berend studied

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s at the

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and the Berliner Kunstgewerbemuseum, taught by Eva Stort and Max Schäfer. In 1901, she was the first student at the private art school of

, who fell in love with her. She became his model for a number of paintings, including ''Portrait of Charlotte Berend in a White Dress'' ''(seen at right)''. On 26 March 1903, she married Corinth and changed her name to Berend-Corinth. On 13 October the same year their son Thomas Corinth was born, and their daughter Wilhelmine Corinth was born on 13 June 1909. Berend-Corinth began exhibiting her paintings at the Berliner Secession in 1906. She joined the Secession in 1912 and did not leave it after the separation of the new Freie Secession led by

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when Lovis Corinth became its new leader. She painted book illustrations for Max Pallenberg,

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, and

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and painted portraits of

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and

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. In the 1920s she supported young artists from the theatres in Berlin. In 1919 Lovis Corinth bought a house in

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where he and his wife could retire from their life in Berlin. It was here, in her lakeside home at Urfeld, where she painted landscapes, portraits and still lifes and more and more retired from the active arts scene. Her husband died in 1925 from

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during a journey to the Netherlands. Her work was part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1932 Summer Olympics. Berend-Corinth emigrated in 1933 to the

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, where her son Thomas was already living in

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. In 1958 she published a book of the complete paintings of Lovis Corinth, which became a standard work and is in use today in a 1992 edition from

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. Berend-Corinth died in 1967.

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*Pfefferkorn, Rudolf (1972). ''Die Berliner Secession. Eine Epoche deutscher Kunstgeschichte.'' Berlin: Haude & Spenersche Verlagsbuchhandlung *Corinth, L., Schuster, P.-K., Vitali, C., & Butts, B. (1996). ''Lovis Corinth''. Munich: Prestel. {{DEFAULTSORT:Berend-Corinth, Charlotte German artists' models 1880 births 1967 deaths 20th-century German painters 20th-century German printmakers Olympic competitors in art competitions 19th-century German women artists German women painters Women printmakers

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