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MAX LIEBERMANN (1849– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 590 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LIEBERMANN (1849– )  , See also:German painter and etcher, was See also:born in See also:Berlin . After studying under Steffeck, he entered the school of See also:art at See also:Weimar in 1869 . 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 . 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 . He subsequently went to See also:Holland, where the example of Israels See also:con-firmed him in the method he had adopted at Barbizon; but on his return to See also:Munich in 1878 he caused much unfavourable See also:criticism by his realistic See also:painting of " See also:Christ in the See also:Temple," which was condemned by the See also:clergy as irreverent and remained his only See also:attempt at a scriptural subject . Henceforth he devoted himself exclusively to the study of See also:free-See also:light and to the painting of the See also:life of humble folk . He found his best subjects in the orphanages and asylums for the old in See also:Amsterdam, among the peasants in the See also:fields and See also:village streets of Holland, and in the See also:beer-gardens, factories, and workrooms of his own See also:country . See also:Germany was reluctant, however, in admitting. the merit of an artist whose See also:style and method were so markedly at variance with the See also:time-honoured See also:academic tradition . Only when his fame was echoed back from See also:France, See also:Belgium, and Holland did his compatriots realize the eminent position which is his due in the See also:history of German art . It is hardly too much to say that See also:Liebermann has done for his country what Millet did for France . His pictures hold the fragrance of the See also:soil and the breezes of the heavens . His See also:people move in their proper See also:atmosphere, and their life is stated in all its monotonous simplicity, without artificial pathos or melodramatic exaggeration .

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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