ArtistLiebermann, Max

Artist Years1847-1935

Artist NationalityGerman

TitleSelf-Portrait with Hat

Year1917

MediumPrint > Lithograph

DimensionsComposition: 8.3 X 6.3 inches
Sheet: 16 X 12 inches

Catalog ReferenceSchiefler 307; Sohn 108-2; Rifkind 1772

Accession Number392017

NotesMax Liebermann (20 July 1847 – 8 February 1935) was a German painter and printmaker, and one of the leading proponents of Impressionism in Germany. The son of a Jewish fabric manufacturer turned banker from Berlin, Liebermann grew up in an imposing town house alongside the Brandenburg Gate. He first studied law and philosophy at the University of Berlin, but later studied painting and drawing in Weimar in 1869, in Paris in 1872, and in the Netherlands in 1876–77. During the Franco-Prussian War (1870–71), Liebermann served as a medic with the Order of St. John near Metz. After living and working for some time in Munich, he finally returned to Berlin in 1884, where he remained for the rest of his life. He was married in 1884 to Martha Marckwald (1857–1943, see portrait by Anders Zorn).

On his 80th birthday, in 1927, 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.

Liebermann died on February 8, 1935, at his home on Berlin's Pariser Platz, near the Brandenburg Gate. According to Käthe Kollwitz, he fell asleep about 7 p.m. and was gone.
(source: wikipedia.org)

Note:
This lithograph was later published in Kurt Pfister's Deutsche Graphiker der Gegenwart, Klinkhardt & Biermann, Leipzig, 1920, in an edition of 600.

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