Max Liebermann: Modern Art and Modern GermanyThis is the first English-language examination of the German impressionist painter Max Liebermann, whose long life and career spanned nine decades. Through a close reading of key paintings and a discussion of his many cultural networks across Germany and throughout Europe, this study by Marion F. Deshmukh illuminates Liebermann’s importance as a pioneer of German modernism. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Berlin Weimar | 23 |
Social Transformations in | 73 |
The Confraternity of Painters and World Expositions | 105 |
Savoring Success at the Turn of the Century 195 | 195 |
From the Battles of Juries to the Battlefields of War 191020 | 257 |
Negotiating the Politics of Culture during the Weimar Republic | 307 |
The Darkening Shadow of AntiSemitism and AntiModernism | 347 |
Liebermanns Afterlife | 375 |
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