Karl Legien
1826 to 1850
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View on museum website →Medium
drypoint in black on wove paper
Dimensions
plate: 30.5 x 22.9 cm (12 x 9 in.) sheet: 51.3 x 33.7 cm (20 3/16 x 13 1/4 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1950.17.318
About the Artist
Max Liebermann · 1847–1935
Max Liebermann (1847–1935) was the towering figure of German Impressionism, an artist whose long career and formidable institutional influence made him the dominant voice in German painting for more than four decades. Born in Berlin into a wealthy Jewish family, he received his earliest training at the Weimar School of Art before traveling to Paris, where sustained exposure to the French Barbizon ...