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Q: Where is this painting displayed?

The painting hangs at the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart in Germany. It represents Corinth's early naturalistic phase before his turn toward Expressionism.

Q: What art movement was Corinth part of?

Corinth later became a leading German Expressionist. This 1893 painting shows his earlier naturalistic style, influenced by French Realism.

Q: Why paint a slaughterhouse?

The slaughterhouse became an important subject in modern art, confronting viewers with industrial death and the body as meat. Later artists like Chaim Soutine would explore similar themes.

Lovis Corinth completed this visceral scene in 1893, depicting workers in a slaughterhouse amid hanging carcasses. Raw flesh dominates the canvas with unflinching realism, the butchers going about their grim work with matter-of-fact efficiency. The painting confronts viewers with industrial death.

Corinth would later become a leading German Expressionist, but this early work shows his grounding in naturalistic observation. The slaughterhouse became an enduring motif in modern art, from Corinth to Chaim Soutine. The painting hangs at the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart.

The painting hangs at the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart in Germany. It represents Corinth's early naturalistic phase before his turn toward Expressionism.

Corinth later became a leading German Expressionist. This 1893 painting shows his earlier naturalistic style, influenced by French Realism.

The slaughterhouse became an important subject in modern art, confronting viewers with industrial death and the body as meat. Later artists like Chaim Soutine would explore similar themes.

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