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The Young Hunter Greets Aline (Der junge Jäger begrüsst Aline) from The Queen of Golconda (Die Königin von Golkonde)

Lovis Corinth opens this portfolio, based on an eighteenth-century love story, with a bright, sunlit landscape in which a caddish young wanderer, lolling in a field, catches sight of an innocent milkmaid, Aline. Corinth shows the stages of Aline's seduction, an indiscretion which leads to expulsion from her homeland. She ends up in Golconda, a magnificent place far beyond the borders of European civilization, where she becomes queen. Her young seducer visits the city, and they rekindle their youthful liaison. Golconda is an old name for Hyderabad, India. Corinth's Golconda, however, is largely an imaginary place, located in an exotic Orient filled with lavishly costumed characters. His warm, ri...
(1920/21)
One from a portfolio of twelve lithographs
26.8 x 23.5cm
338.1956
Image and text © MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2019

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