Corinth and the Berlin National Gallery

Hardly any other museum has more paintings by Lovis Corinth than the Berlin National Gallery. Today, there are 23 pictures in their collection. Eight of them are on loan in the Berlinische Galerie's special exhibition. The guided tour with Sven Haase, provenance researcher at the Central Archives of the State Museums in Berlin, is about the moving stories behind these paintings: In 1933, the museum owned 15 paintings by the artist. Under National Socialism, the painter's expressive, late works in particular were defamed as “degenerate” and confiscated in German museums, including in the National Gallery. The division of Germany after the Second World War also meant a division of the National Gallery. Both houses in East and West Berlin tried in very different ways to close the gaps again.

Learn more about the exhibition “Lovis Corinth. Then came Berlin!”