Selbstbildnis (Self-Portrait) from Deutsche Graphiker der Gegenwart (German Printmakers of Our Time)
Max Liebermann
1917, published 1920
Medium
lithograph from a bound volume with 15 lithographs, eight woodcuts, eight photomechanical reproductions, and one drypoint
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Robert M. Walker
Accession Number
1980.26.2.3
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 ...