The Artist's Daughter Käthe Reading in a Chair
Max Liebermann
1893/1895
Medium
black chalk and heightened with white chalk on gray wove paper
Dimensions
sheet: 27.5 x 33 cm (10 13/16 x 13 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Patrons' Permanent Fund
Accession Number
2007.111.119
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 ...