Max Liebermann
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Max Liebermann 🇩🇪

Max Liebermann (Known as "The Father of German Impressionism")
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Born Jul 20, 1847 🇩🇪 Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia
Passed Away Feb 08, 1935 Berlin, Nazi Germany
Lifespan 87 years old
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"Whenever I see what is happening in this country, I cannot eat as much as I would like to throw up."

Archival Overview

Leader of German Impressionism and President of the Prussian Academy of Arts whose sun-dappled Wannsee garden canvases and working-class realism defined modern German painting.

Biographical Record

Max Liebermann (1847–1935 CE) was a wealthy Jewish banker's son who studied in Paris and the Netherlands, initially shocking Berlin with unvarnished paintings of peasant laborers.

As leader of the Berlin Secession and President of the Prussian Academy of Arts, he brought French Impressionism to Germany, painting vibrant, sunlit canvases of his lakeside villa garden on the Wannsee.

Key Life Milestones

1898

Founding of the Berlin Secession

Led progressive German artists in breaking away from Kaiser Wilhelm II's reactionary imperial academy.

1920

President of the Prussian Academy of Arts

Elected president of Germany's highest cultural institution, which he resigned in 1933 in protest of Nazi antisemitism.

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Final Resting Place

Perpetual Memorial
Jewish Cemetery Schönhauser Allee
Berlin, Germany
GPS: 52.5367, 13.4117
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