1858
July 21: Lovis (actually Franz Heinrich Louis) Corinth is born in Tapiau (East Prussia) to tanner Heinrich Corinth and his wife Wilhelmine.
1876
The family moves to Königsberg. Corinth begins his studies at the academy as a student of genre painter Otto Günther (1838-1884).
1880
On Günther's recommendation, Corinth begins studying at the Munich Academy, where great importance is attached to the technique of nude study.
1883
After completing one year of voluntary military service, he resumed his studies at the academy.
1884
Painting lessons in Antwerp. October: He enrolled at the Académie Julian in Paris.
1887
He returned to Königsberg.
1888
Corinth moves to Berlin. He adopts the artist name Lovis Corinth. With his first self-portrait, he begins his lifelong self-analysis through painting.
1891
He moves to Munich. Exhibition of the literary figure painting “Diogenes” in Munich's Glaspalast. The work is sharply criticized by critics.
1892
Corinth joins the Munich Secession without conviction.
1893
Together with other dissatisfied members of the Secession, he founds the “Free Association” with the aim of improving their exhibition opportunities.
1896
Corinth participates in the founding of the Masonic lodge “In Treue fest” (In Loyalty).
1897
When his painting “Salome” is rejected by the Munich Secession jury, he feels vindicated in his decision to leave Munich.
1900
Corinth commutes between Munich and Berlin. Friendship with Max Liebermann and Gerhart Hauptmann. Participation in the 2nd exhibition of the “Berlin Secession” and exhibition at the art dealer Paul Cassirer.
1901
Corinth moves to Berlin and opens a painting school. He becomes a member of the “Berlin Secession,” to whose board he is elected the following year.
1903
March 26: Corinth marries his student Charlotte Berend.
1906
He begins writing his autobiography.
1908
Corinth's textbook “Das Erlernen der Malerei” (Learning to Paint) is published.
1911
After Liebermann resigns as president of the Berlin Secession, Corinth is elected chairman. December: He suffers a stroke that leaves him paralyzed on one side.
1913
As a gesture of reconciliation, the Berlin Secession holds a major retrospective of Corinth's work. When 42 members led by Liebermann leave the Secession and found the Free Secession, Corinth remains the only notable artist associated with the old Secession.
1914
August: Corinth welcomes the outbreak of World War I with patriotic zeal. Like many other artists, he hopes that the war will bring about a radical new beginning.
1917
As a patriot, he wants to paint portraits of generals and politicians from the start of the war. This leads to the portrait of the organizer and head of the Imperial Navy, Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz.
1918
The Academy of Arts in Berlin awards him the title of professor. The collapse of the German Empire shakes Corinth's political and artistic convictions.
1919
He purchases a property in Urfeld am Walchensee and increasingly withdraws from life in the big city.
1923
The Academy's spring exhibition brings together the works of Liebermann, Corinth, and Oskar Kokoschka to form a triad.
1924
He paints a portrait of Reich President Friedrich Ebert.
1925
July 17: Lovis Corinth dies near Amsterdam.