Online Encyclopedia

Search over 40,000 articles from the original, classic Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th Edition.

LIEBERMANN, MAX (1849– )

Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 590 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
» Make a correction to this article.
» Add information or comments to this article.
Spread the word: del.icio.us del.icio.us it!

See also:

LIEBERMANN, MAX (1849– ) , See also:German painter and etcher, was See also:born in See also:Berlin. After studying under Steffeck, he entered the school of See also:art at See also:Weimar in 1869. Though the straightforward simplicity of his first exhibited picture, " See also:Women plucking Geese," in 1872, presented already a striking contrast to the conventional art then in See also:vogue, it was heavy and bituminous in See also:colour, like all the artist's paintings before his visit to See also:Paris at the end of 1872. A summer spent at See also:Barbizon in 1873, where he became personally acquainted with See also:Millet and had occasion to study the See also:works of See also:Corot, See also:Troyon, and See also:Daubigny, resulted in the clearing and brightening of his See also:palette, and taught him to forget the example of MVIunkacsy, under whose See also:influence he had produced his first pictures in Paris. He subsequently went to See also:Holland, where the example of Israels See also:con-firmed him in the method he had adopted at Barbizon; but on his return to See also:Munich in 1878 he caused much unfavourable See also:criticism by his realistic See also:painting of " See also:Christ in the See also:Temple," which was condemned by the See also:clergy as irreverent and remained his only See also:attempt at a scriptural subject. Henceforth he devoted himself exclusively to the study of See also:free-See also:light and to the painting of the See also:life of humble folk. He found his best subjects in the orphanages and asylums for the old in See also:Amsterdam, among the peasants in the See also:fields and See also:village streets of Holland, and in the See also:beer-gardens, factories, and workrooms of his own See also:country. See also:Germany was reluctant, however, in admitting. the merit of an artist whose See also:style and method were so markedly at variance with the See also:time-honoured See also:academic tradition. Only when his fame was echoed back from See also:France, See also:Belgium, and Holland did his compatriots realize the eminent position which is his due in the See also:history of German art. It is hardly too much to say that Liebermann has done for his country what Millet did for France. His pictures hold the fragrance of the See also:soil and the breezes of the heavens. His See also:people move in their proper See also:atmosphere, and their life is stated in all its monotonous simplicity, without artificial pathos or melodramatic exaggeration.

His first success was a See also:

medal awarded him for " An See also:Asylum for Old Men " at the 1881 See also:Salon. In 1884 he settled again in Berlin, where he became See also:professor of the See also:Academy in 1898. He became a member of the Societe nationale See also:des See also:Beaux Arts, of the Societe royale beige des Aquarellistes, and of the Cercle des Aquarellistes at the See also:Hague. Liebermann is represented in most of the German and other See also:continental galleries. The Berlin See also:National See also:Gallery owns " The See also:Flax-Spinners "; the Munich Pinakothek, " The Woman with Goats "; the See also:Hamburg Gallery, " The See also:Net-Menders "; the See also:Hanover Gallery, the " Village See also:Street in Holland." ." The Seamstress " is at the See also:Dresden Gallery; the " See also:Man on the See also:Dunes " at See also:Leipzig; " Dutch See also:Orphan Girls " at See also:Strassburg; " Beer-cellar at See also:Brandenburg " at the Luxembourg Museum in Paris, and the " Knopflerinnen " in See also:Venice. His etchings are to be found in the leading See also:print cabinets of See also:Europe.

End of Article: LIEBERMANN, MAX (1849– )

Additional information and Comments

There are no comments yet for this article.
» Add information or comments to this article.
Please link directly to this article:
Highlight the code below, right click, and select "copy." Then paste it into your website, email, or other HTML.
Site content, images, and layout Copyright © 2006 - Net Industries, worldwide.
Do not copy, download, transfer, or otherwise replicate the site content in whole or in part.

Links to articles and home page are always encouraged.

[back]
LIEBER, FRANCIS (1800–1872) 		[next]
LIEBIG, JUSTUS VON, BARON (1803-1873)

Site © 2006 - Net Industries