“The other day a Hitler paper wrote – it was sent to me – that it would be unheard of for a Jew to paint the Reich President. I can only laugh at something like that. I”
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Max Liebermann
Max Liebermann was a German painter and printmaker, and one of the leading proponents of Impressionism in Germany and continental Europe. In addition to his activity as an artist, he also assembled an important collection of French Impressionist works.
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culture · German painter (1847–1935) · painter · illustrator · printmaker · collector · teacher · etcher · lithographer · draftsperson · pastellist · also Max Liebermann, Max Lieberman, Maks Liberman, Max von Liebermann, Liebermann, M. Liebermann
Born 20 July 1847 · Died 8 February 1935 · Q158062
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2026· 4 entries
“I continue to work as calmly as possible, in the opinion that I thereby serve the general best.”
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“It was as if someone were walking on a level path and suddenly stepped on a spiral spring that sprang up”
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2025· 1 entry
Jewish Telegraphic Agency: Max Liebermann Stricken; Condition Causing Anxiety
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2024· 1 entry
The Financial Times: House museums #63: Max Liebermann
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2021· 1 entry
Observer: A Settlement Has Been Reached in a Dispute About a Max Liebermann Portrait
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2013· 1 entry
One of the first artworks to be proven to have been looted by the Nazis was Liebermann's Two Riders on the Beach that had belonged to the Jewish collector David Friedmann
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2011· 1 entry
The Israel Museum returned a painting to the Max Liebermann estate, decades after the masterpiece was looted from a Jewish museum in Nazi Germany
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1943· 1 entry
After she learned she was going to be deported to Theresienstadt concentration camp
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1935· 1 entry
Died 1935-02-08.
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1933· 1 entry
Resigned when the academy decided to no longer exhibit works by Jewish artists, before he would have been forced to do so under laws restricting the rights of Jews
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1927· 3 entries
Awarded Adlerschild des Deutschen Reiches (1927).
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Liebermann came back into the public eye: the media and the art world celebrated him and his work on the occasion of his 80th birthday
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Liebermann was celebrated with a large exhibition, declared an honorary citizen of Berlin and hailed in a cover story in Berlin's leading illustrated magazine
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1925· 1 entry
Awarded Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art (1925).
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1923· 1 entry
Liebermann was accepted into the order Pour le Mérite
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1922· 1 entry
Walther Rathenau was murdered by right-wing activists
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1920· 1 entry
Was president of the Prussian Academy of Arts
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1917· 2 entries
The Prussian Academy of the Arts dedicated a large retrospective of his work to Liebermann for his 70th birthday
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And saw republicanization as a missed opportunity for a parliamentary monarchy
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1916· 2 entries
And 1917, he produced works on Goethe's novella and The Man of Fifty Years, as well as Heinrich von Kleist's Small Writings
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Changed its name to "Bildermann", Liebermann gave up his participation
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1914· 1 entry
In which public figures came together for political and private exchange under the chairmanship of the liberal-conservative politician Wilhelm Solf
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1912· 2 entries
Under the chairmanship of Corinth, was unsuccessful
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Which was exhibited in 1917 at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition in Düsseldorf
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1910· 2 entries
The Secession board under Liebermann rejected 27 Expressionist images, and the former rebel now seemed a conservative spokesman
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Exhibited works by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Georges Braque and the Fauves for the first time
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1909· 1 entry
Liebermann bought property in Wannsee, a wealthy suburb of summer homes on the outskirts of Berlin
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1908· 1 entry
Walter Leistikow died, who as one of the founders had been an important pillar of the Secession
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1890· 1 entry
Liebermann received several commissions from Hamburg, all of which could be traced back to Alfred Lichtwark: In addition to a pastel in the Kirchenallee in St
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1889· 2 entries
The world exhibition took place in Paris on the occasion of the centenary of the French Revolution
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Liebermann traveled to Katwijk, where he took leave of the social milieu as a subject with the painting Woman with Goats
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1884· 2 entries
Liebermann decided to return to his hometown Berlin, although he was aware that this would lead to inevitable conflicts
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Where he remained for the rest of his life
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1880· 1 entry
"he was the first German to receive an honorable mention for this work"
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1879· 1 entry
Also traveled to the Dachauer Moos, Rosenheim and the Inn Valley for painting stays, where his painting Brannenburger Biergarten was created
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1878· 1 entry
Liebermann went on a trip to Italy for the first time
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1875· 1 entry
Liebermann spent three months in Zandvoort in Holland
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1874· 1 entry
Submitted his goose plucking to the Salon de Paris, where the picture was accepted but received negative reviews in the press, especially from a nationalist point of view
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1873· 1 entry
Liebermann saw farmers harvesting beets at the gates of Weimar
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1872· 2 entries
Studied at Weimar Saxon-Grand Ducal Art School (1868–1872).
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His unusual subject aroused disgust and shock
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1869· 1 entry
His parents made it possible for him to study painting and drawing at the Grand Ducal Saxon Art School in Weimar
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1866· 1 entry
Max Liebermann graduated from high school
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1862· 1 entry
15-year-old Max attended an event by the young socialist Ferdinand Lassalle, whose passionate ideas fascinated the millionaire's son
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1859· 1 entry
Max Liebermann accompanied his mother to the painter Antonie Volkmar
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1851· 1 entry
The Liebermanns moved to Behrenstraße, from where Max attended a nearby humanistic toddler school
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1847· 1 entry
Born 1847-07-20.
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