About Georges Corm

Georges Corm was a second-generation Lebanese artist who built upon his father’s academic style, with a slightly lighter palette and looser brushstrokes. He studied in Paris and returned to Lebanon during a period of drastic social change, where he continued to paint portraits of the aristocracy but also created images of peasants and working-class people in the spirit of social realism. Corm rejected abstraction and adhered to a realist aesthetic that celebrated the perfection and beauty of the human body and soul. He also romanticized the world around him, rendering landscapes in dense, poetic layers of bright colors. His preferred mediums were oil on canvas and pastel on paper. Corm moved to Egypt in 1928 to seek a more favorable market for his work and remained active in the Egyptian art scene for the next two decades. However, his financial situation deteriorated in the 1950s, and he returned to Lebanon in 1956, where he was deemed too old-fashioned for the modern art movement. Corm’s health declined rapidly in the mid-1960s, and he died in 1971.