Max Liebermann
Terrace in the Garden near the Wannsee towards Northwest

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Artist Max Liebermann (German, 1847–1935)German, 1847–1935

CultureGerman

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Terrace in the Garden near the Wannsee towards Northwest

Date1916

PlaceGermany

MediumOil on canvas

DimensionsCanvas: 23 × 35 1/4 in. (58.4 × 89.5 cm)
Frame: 31 1/2 × 43 3/4 × 3 1/2 in. (80 × 111.1 × 8.9 cm)

Credit LineJohn A. and Audrey Jones Beck Collection, museum purchase funded by the Audrey Jones Beck Accessions Endowment

Object number2009.549

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223 Beck Galleries

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European Art, Beck Collection

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Provenance[Paul Cassirer (1871–1926), Berlin, 1916, likely from the artist] [1]; purchased by Henry P. Newmann (Hamburg, 1868– Berlin, 1917), Hamburg, 1916 [2]; Maria von Düring Newmann (Mrs. H.P. Newmann; d. 1942), Berlin, by descent, 1917 [3]; Maria-Louisa Newmann Elmenhorst (d. 1952), by descent, 1942; Gisela Elmenhorst, Paris, by descent, 1952; [sold by her, Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg, “Moderne Kunst,” 9–10 June 1983, lot 880, illus. in color, pl. 12] [4]; Private collection; [Arnoldi-Livie, Munich, by 2009]; purchased by MFAH, 2009.

[1] Cassirer no. 18470, per Eberle (1996). Eberle provides the provenance in his catalogue with information from the Paul Cassirer Archive. Cassirer was a German art dealer and a champion of German Impressionists.

[2] Eberle (1996). Newmann was a merchant and art collector. He owned a number of works by Liebermann and commissioned a portrait of his wife in 1910.

[3] Ibid.

[4] The catalogue does not indicate the break in the two-day sale. The provenance simply reads: Paul Cassirer, Berlin; Privatsammlung, Hamburg.

Exhibition History"Max Liebermann, 70. Geburtstag," Royal Academy of Arts, Berlin, 1917.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Inscribed, recto, lower right corner: "(signature) 1916"

Inscribed in ink on sticker, stretcher verso: "No. 14709. / Liebermann / Fruhling (?) in Wannsee / 1916."

Signed, recto, lower right corner: "M Liebermann"

Stamped on stretcher, middle vertical slat: "Photo"
Stamped on stretcher, middle and proper left vertical slats: "Doris Ray / BERLIN, W 35 / Genthinerstrasse 14"

Catalogue raisonnéMatthias Eberle, Max Liebermann: 1847–1935; Werkverzeichnis der Gemälde und Ölstudien, vol. II, 1900–1935 (Munich: Hirmer Verlag, 1996), no. 1916/18, p. 917, as Die Blumenterrasse im Wannseegarten nach Nordwesten, as location unknown, p. 921

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