MAX LIEBERMANNS GRAPHISCHE KUNST
Dresden; Arnold, 1922. Item #33415
Original Cloth. 4to. 33, 95 pages. 26 cm. Second edition. In German. “Max Liebermanns Graphic Art”. With 95 pages of plates. 103 illustrations total. Introduction by Max J. Friedlander (1867-1958) , important German art historian, curator, and art dealer. Max Liebermann (1847–1935) , “German painter. Liebermann, the son of a Berlin industrialist, studied at the Weimar Academy. He was only 23 when his picture of The Boy Jesus in Dispute with the Rabbis was attacked by critics, some of whom appear to have been motivated by antisemitism. Two years later his Women Plucking Geese received high praise when it was exhibited in Hamburg and Berlin. Liebermann was a very Nordic painter. Photographic naturalism was as abhorrent to him as expressionism, and although he has often been called an impressionist he never regarded himself as one. He spent much of his life in Holland and was heavily influenced by its gray skies. He used cool, austere colors to paint the bleak, flat Netherlands landscapes in which he discovered the excitement of changing atmosphere, sunlight intermingling with mist, blue hazes, and empty spaces. While his early work tended to be static, he gradually loosened up as regards form and color, reversing the traditional pattern by growing freer and more spontaneous as he became older. In his fifties he began painting athletes in action, rearing horses, and the colorful vegetable markets of the Amsterdam Jewish quarter. In 1898 Liebermann became a member of the Berlin Academy and helped to found Sezession, an association of progressive artists. In 1920 he became president of the Berlin Academy of Art. His Gesammelte Schriften (Collected Writings) appeared in 1922. By this time he was too frail for his regular trips to Holland and did much of his painting at his summer home in Wannsee, outside Berlin. He became a celebrated and expensive portraitist, painting his sitters with a broad virtuosity, but not often probing deeply into their personality. Among them were Hermann Cohen, Georg Brandes, and Walther Rathenau . He also did thousands of rapid sketches in pen, pencil, crayon, and chalk. ” (Werner, EJ 2008) Subjects: Prenten. Bildband. Liebermann, Max, 1847-1935. Light wear to cloth, otherwise fresh. Very good condition. (ART-22-38).
Price: $100.00