01 Work of Marine Paintings - With Footnotes, #250

Charlotte Berend-Corinth, (1880 - 1967)

Sea surf in Santa Barbara

Gouache on Japan, c. 1945

44 x 59,8 cm.

Private collection

Berend-Corinth moved to Santa Barbara, California, where she lived from 1940 to 1945. Painterly she devoted herself - as in this work - the local landscape. Almost like a woodcut, she reproduces the sea surf at Santa Barbara in many color areas. Lively details like the birds in the foreground loosen up the flat composition very successfully. More on this painting 

Santa Barbara is a coastal city in and the county seat of Santa Barbara County in the U.S. state of California. Situated on a south-facing section of coastline, the longest such section on the West Coast of the United States, the city lies between the steeply rising Santa Ynez Mountains and the Pacific Ocean. Santa Barbara's climate is often described as Mediterranean, and the city has been promoted as the "American Riviera". More on Santa Barbara

Charlotte Berend-Corinth (25 May 1880 – 10 January 1967) was a female German painter and artist in the Berliner Secession. She was married to German painter Lovis Corinth.

Charlotte Berend studied fine arts at the Royal School of Art in Berlin and the Berliner Kunstgewerbemuseum. In 1901, she was a student at the private art school of Lovis Corinth, who fell in love with her. She became his model for a number of paintings. On 26 March 1903, she married Corinth and changed her name to Berend-Corinth. 

Berend-Corinth began exhibiting her paintings at the Berliner Secession in 1906. She joined the Secession in 1912. She painted book illustrations and portraits. In the 1920s she supported young artists from the theatres in Berlin. In 1919 Lovis Corinth bought a house in Urfeld at Walchensee 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 pneumonia during a journey to the Netherlands.

Berend-Corinth emigrated in 1933 to the United States of America, where her son Thomas was already living in New York City. 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 Béatrice Hernad.

Berendt-Corinth died in 1967. More on Charlotte Berend-Corinth

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