Max LiebermannTyskland, 1847–1935Dutch Village Scene with Hanging Laundry
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As a leading German realist painter, Liebermann was dedicated to the portrayal of everyday subjects, like laboring women, orphans, or the elderly, that were then considered unworthy of representation in high art. Inspired by rural life in the Netherlands, where he summered each year, Liebermann painted this scene directly from nature onto a small wooden panel as a study for his large-scale exhibition pictures. Although the work is dated 1889, Liebermann (who often dated works retrospectively) likely painted it as part of a series of similar studies in the summer of 1890. In paintings like this small oil study, with its thick application of color, Liebermann began to break with the academicism and the realism of the past. He was later the founding and longtime president of the Berlin Secession and, as a pioneering collector of French art — including works by Manet, Monet, Degas, and Cézanne — Liebermann also increased appreciation of impressionism and postimpressionism in Germany.
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Imens i livet hos Max Liebermann
Hele livet1888
Year of the Three Emperors: a memorial to Friedrich III
Liebermann spent the spring of 1888 in Bad Kösen and, shaken by the death of Friedrich III, painted an invented scene, “Memorial Service for Emperor Friedrich III in Bad Kösen”. Despite his left-wing views he felt a bond with the Hohenzollern monarchy.
1889
World's Fair in Paris: Liebermann on the jury
Invited with Gotthardt Kuehl and Karl Köpping to the jury of the exhibition marking the centenary of the French Revolution, he obtained the consent of the Prussian minister Goßler and proposed presenting German painting through Menzel, Leibl, Trübner and von Uhde; the press accused him of serving the idea of revolution, but Menzel took his side. Liebermann received a medal of honour and was admitted to the Société des Beaux-Arts, but declined the Legion of Honour on the Prussian government's recommendation.
1890
A first commissioned portrait: Mayor Petersen
Thanks to Alfred Lichtwark, Liebermann received commissions from Hamburg: a pastel, “Kirchenallee in St. Georg”, and his first portrait commission, Mayor Carl Friedrich Petersen, painted in the manner of Frans Hals. The mayor was furious at the naturalism and the apparent carelessness in the rendering of his official robes; Lichtwark, too, thought the portrait a failure.
spring 1891
Great Gold Medal for “Woman with Goats”
In the spring of 1891 the picture won Liebermann the Great Gold Medal at the Munich exhibition, and at the Vienna exhibition in 1894 it received a large gold medal as well.
5 February 1892
The “Group of Eleven” is formed
Eleven independent artists joined forces in Berlin — the basis of the later Berlin Secession, which led the opposition to the conservative academic school. According to Lovis Corinth, soon after its founding Liebermann became the “secret leader of the eleven anarchists”.
1892
The Edvard Munch exhibition scandal in Berlin
The Association of Berlin Artists staged an exhibition of 55 paintings by Munch, but a general assembly voted 120 to 105 to close it, which finally split Anton von Werner's conservatives from Liebermann's modernists. Sixty protesting members of the Association united under his leadership in the “Free Association of Artists”.
