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Lot 99
Max Liebermann
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Max Liebermann German (1847-1935), MENDING THE NETS, etching, framed, signed: lower right in pencil, Liebermann 137/200 and printmaker FA Boenur, image size: H20 1/2" W26 1/2"

Provenance: *Artist biography: Max Liebermann began capturing his immediate environment on paper at age nine. When the renowned Berlin painter Carl Steffeck saw drawings by the fifteen-year-old, he recommended that the boy's talent should be encouraged as much as possible - much against his parents ideas. Steffeck gave Liebermann his first drawing lessons and encouraged him to attend the Weimar Akademie. Liebermann studied in Weimar for three years until 1872. A trip to Dusseldorf in 1871 took the young artist to Mihaly Munkacsy, a Hungarian painter who lived there. Liebermann was inspired by Munkacsy's Realism. Still under this impression, Liebermann painted his first large painting, 'Die Ganserupferinnen' (Girls Plucking Geese). The unadulterated realism of this work, which was much rejected among the critics, was to become typical of Liebermann's art. He spent the years 1873 to 1878 in Paris and in the artist colony of Barbizon. There he studied the art of Millet, whose paintings of farm workers had a strong influence on him. A first sojourn in Holland in 1871 was followed by regular trips to the Netherlands, where he discovered suitable motifs for his most important works. His striving to elevate the life and work of the simple man to the realms of art in an unpretentious simplicity was not generally accepted. Liebermann continually fought for acceptance. Only after turning towards motifs and scenes of bourgeois life did he become the celebrated and sought after painter of the liberal bourgeoisie of the turn of the century. He spent the years 1878 to 1884 in Munich, then returned to his native town Berlin in 1884. Liebermann was an important personality, not only as an artist, but also as an art politician. At the beginning of 1892, he was a member of the 'Erste Sezession Deutschland', an organization which he chaired in Berlin from 1898 to 1911. His home town honored Liebermann by appointing him professor at the Konigliche Akademie der Kunste. Later, from 1920 to 1932, he was the president of the Preußische Akademie der Kunste. Liebermann retreated from the political world in the last years of his life. He became severely ill in 1934 and died three months later in isolation in his Berlin apartment.

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