Max Liebermann (1847-1935) is credited with introducing Modernism to German painting. For the first time, an exhibition at the Hamburger Kunsthalle presents a comprehensive retrospective revealing how this process took place and the impressive oeuvre Liebermann was executing at the time.
This retrospective unites over one hundred key paintings from all phases of his creative development. They range from rustic, rural subjects to depictions of bourgeois leisure activity to his unerring portraits and the late, color-drenched garden paintings. The show is rounded off with examples of work by Liebermann's influences Mihaly Munkácsy, Adolph Menzel, Paul Cézanne and Auguste Renoir.
Disillusioned by German academia, the young Berliner turned to France and Holland where he immersed himself in the progressive trends of the day. In Paris he came into contact with French Impressionism and in Holland he met supporters of The Hague School. In Berlin, Liebermann became the engine of an oppositional movement opposing the Prussian-Wilhelmine art policy.
Date: until February 19.
Location: Hamburger Kunsthalle. Glockengießerwall. D-20095 Hamburg. Germany.
Opening hours: from Tuesdays to Sundays from 10am to 6pm. Thursdays from 10am to 9pm.
See some of his works in the following slideshow:
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