Max Liebermann

The Goethe-Institut presents an exhibition of works on paper by the German impressionist artist Max Liebermann (1847-1935). The graphics, loaned by the National Gallery of Art, are supplemented with additional material from the Leo Baeck Institute and private collections, and organized by Professor Marion Deshmukh, George Mason University. The exhibition coincides with the first major Liebermann retrospective in the United States, Max Liebermann: From Realism to Impressionism, organized by the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, and on exhibit from March 10 through July 9, 2006 at the Jewish Museum, New York.

Liebermann was arguably one of the most important artistic and cultural figures in Imperial and Weimar Germany. He founded and headed several alternative artists’ associations, notably the Berlin Secession which introduced international modernism into Germany’s new capital. Liebermann’s broad-brushed impressions of the Dutch countryside and coastline, his portraits of illustrious German cultural and political figures, his depictions of the new urban elites at leisure, and his colorful garden scenes at his Wannsee villa introduce the artist as a critical figure in German modernism of the 19th and 20th centuries. The Goethe graphics show will illuminate the artist’s range as a printmaker, etcher, lithographer and creator of pastels. Included with the works on paper will be facsimile letters and first edition books illustrated by the artist.

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Max Liebermann: Works on Paper