Portrait of Dr Ferdinand Mainzer

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Lovis Corinth (1858–1925), was a key figure of German modernist art. Active since 1892 in the Munich Secession, in 1899 Corinth participated in the first exhibition of the Berlin Secession. That same year he painted Dr Mainzer’s portrait, also in Berlin, and shortly afterwards he relocated permanently to the capital.It was no accident that Mainzer was among the first people Corinth met when he joined the Berlin Secession, nor that the doctor should commission his portrait from the brash artist from Munich. Mainzer’s wife, Gertrude, was a pupil of Corinth’s old friend Walter Leistikow. Corinth captures sophistication, wit, perhaps superciliousness, in Mainzer’s ultra-refined personality, as the doctor leans back in his chair to peer at the artist through pince-nez.

The National Gallery, London

London

Title

Portrait of Dr Ferdinand Mainzer

Date

1899

Medium

Oil on canvas

Accession number

NG6691

Acquisition method

Accepted in lieu of Inheritance Tax by HM Government from the estates of Evan and Gisela Stone and allocated jointly to the National Gallery and the Henry Barber Trust, 2021

Work type

Painting

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