Self-Portrait
Max Liebermann
1906
Medium
etching on laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 24.5 x 19.6 cm (9 5/8 x 7 11/16 in.) sheet: 46.3 x 36 cm (18 1/4 x 14 3/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Accession Number
1992.47.2
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 ...