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MAX See also:LIEBERMANN (1849– )
, See also:German painter and
etcher, was See also:born in See also:Berlin
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After studying under Steffeck, he entered the school of See also:art at See also:Weimar in 1869
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Though the straightforward simplicity of his first exhibited picture, " See also:Women plucking Geese," in 1872, presented already a striking contrast to the conventional art then in See also:vogue, it was heavy and bituminous in See also:colour, like all the artist's paintings before his visit to See also:Paris at the end of 1872
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A summer spent at See also:Barbizon in 1873, where he became personally acquainted with See also:Millet and had occasion to study the See also:works of See also:Corot, See also:Troyon, and See also:Daubigny, resulted in the clearing and brightening of his See also:palette, and taught him to forget the example of MVIunkacsy, under whose See also:influence he had produced his first pictures in Paris
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He subsequently went to See also: His first success was a See also:medal awarded him for " An See also:Asylum for Old Men " at the 1881 See also:Salon . In 1884 he settled again in Berlin, where he became See also:professor of the See also:Academy in 1898 . He became a member of the Societe nationale See also:des See also:Beaux Arts, of the Societe royale beige des Aquarellistes, and of the Cercle des Aquarellistes at the See also:Hague . Liebermann is represented in most of the German and other See also:continental galleries . The Berlin See also:National See also:Gallery owns " The See also:Flax-Spinners "; the Munich Pinakothek, " The Woman with Goats "; the See also:Hamburg Gallery, " The See also:Net-Menders "; the See also:Hanover Gallery, the " Village See also:Street in Holland." ." The Seamstress " is at the See also:Dresden Gallery; the " See also:Man on the See also:Dunes " at See also:Leipzig; " Dutch See also:Orphan Girls " at See also:Strassburg; " Beer-cellar at See also:Brandenburg " at the Luxembourg Museum in Paris, and the " Knopflerinnen " in See also:Venice . His etchings are to be found in the leading See also:print cabinets of See also:Europe . |
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