Max Liebermann and International Modernism: An Artist's Career from Empire to Third Reich (Studies in German History #14)

Synopsis

Although Max Liebermann (1847–1935) began his career as a realist painter depicting scenes of rural labor, Dutch village life, and the countryside, by the turn of the century, his paintings had evolved into colorful images of bourgeois life and leisure that critics associated with French impressionism. During a time of increasing German nationalism, his paintings and cultural politics sparked numerous aesthetic and political controversies. His eminent career and his reputation intersected with the dramatic and violent events of modern German history from the Empire to the Third Reich. The Nazis’ persecution of modern and Jewish artists led to the obliteration of Liebermann from the narratives of modern art, but this volume contributes to the recent wave of scholarly literature that works to recover his role and his oeuvre from an international perspective.

Copyright:

2011

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

266 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781845456627

Publisher:

Berghahn Books, Incorporated

Date of Addition:

08/12/22

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N/A

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

History, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture

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Bookshare Staff

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This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Marion Deshmukh

Edited by:

Françoise Forster-Hahn

Edited by:

Barbara Gaehtgens