From 1866 to 1868 Max Liebermann studied Philosophy and additionally took up painting classes. He enrolled in the Art School of Weimar from 1869 to 1872. A year later he traveled to Paris to find inspiration in the works of the French Naturalists. In 1876 a journey leads him to Holland where he created paintings en plein-air. As the German Reich did not participate in the Paris World Exhibit of 1889, due to its “anti-monarchy” tendency, Max Liebermann became a co-organizer of an unofficial participation of German artists. For his 50th birthday he was offered a chair by the Royal Academy in Berlin. Together with other artists, he formed the “Berlin Secession”, of which he became chairman in 1898. In 1920 he was appointed President of Prussian Academy of Arts, drafting a new liberal program that could not be executed. In 1932 he was appointed Honorary President of the Prussian Academy of the Arts but nonetheless, due to his Jewish background, was given a working ban in 1933 by the National Socialists.
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Seine Kunstwerke befinden sich in zahlreichen privaten und öffentlichen Sammlungen Europas. Benhaus, Museen der Hansestadt Lübeck Berlin, Nationalgalerie Berlin, Museum Berlin, Sammlung Arnhold Berlin, Berliner Bank AG Berlin, Paul Cassirer Bremen, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Kunstmuseum Essen, Gesellschaft Kruppsche Gemäldesammlung Essen, Museum Folkwang Frankfurt a.M., Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Städtische Galerie Frankfurt a.M., Deutsche Bank AG Gelsenkirchen, Städtische Kunstsammlungen Hamburg, Kunsthalle, Kupferstichkabinett Hannover, Niedersächsisches Landesmuseum Heidelberg, Kürpfälzisches Museum (Dauerleihgabe der Familie des Dargestellten) Karlsruhe, Staatliche Kunsthalle Kiel, Kunsthalle Kiel, Stiftung Pommern Köln, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum Mannheim, Städtische Kunsthalle München, Neue Pinakothek München, Schloss Haimhausen München, Pfanni Werk - Otto Eckhart KG Schweinfurt, Sammlung Georg Schäfer Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie Wuppertal, Von der Heydt-Museum St. Gallen, Kunstmuseum Zürich, Kunsthaus Zürich, Marianne Feilchenfeldt Linz, Wolfgang-Gurlitt-Museum Paris, Palais Tokyo New York, Galerie Wildenstein
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Works by Max Liebermann
Die Blumenterrasse im Wannseegarten nach Nordosten
