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Book 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.
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Table of Contents List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART I: LIEBERMANN’S INTERNATIONAL CONNECTIONS AND TRAINING
Chapter 1. Internationalism for the Nation: Max Liebermann as a Cultural Politician
Peter Paret
Chapter 2. Weimar Beginnings: Liebermann and Munkacsy
Hendrik Ziegler
Chapter 3. Liebermann’s Holland
Holly Richardson
PART II: THE FRENCH CONNECTION
Chapter 4. German Impressionism?
Thomas Gaehtgens
Chapter 5. Liebermann and Millet
Andrea Meyer
Chapter 6. Liebermann and his French Critics: Art and Politics from the 1870s to the 1930s
Mathilde Arnoux
Chapter 7. Max Liebermann’s Art Collection: A Reconstruction from Letters and Documents
Annegret Janda
Chapter 8. History and Modernity: Liebermann’s Late Garden Paintings
Barbara Gaehtgens
PART III: GERMAN CULTURAL CRITICISM
Chapter 9. Criticism, Conflict and Controversy
Matthias Eberle
Chapter 10. How Modern is Modern? Max Liebermann and the Discourses of Modernism in 1906
Françoise Forster-Hahn
Chapter 11. Who’s Afraid of Delilah? Liebermann Portraying Women
Margreet Nouwen
Chapter 12. Kreigszeit and the Discourse of War Imagery
Timothy Benson
PART IV: INTERNATIONAL POLITICS AND INTERNATIONAL MODERNISM
Chapter 13. Max Liebermann’s Role in Russia
Marina Dmietreva-Einhorn
Chapter 14. Paintings and Drawings by Max Liebermann: A British Intervention against European Fascism
Susan M. King
Chapter 15. The Art of the Deal, Collecting Max Liebermann in America
Christopher With
Chapter 16. Sonderwege Historical and Art Historical: The Case of Max Liebermann
Marion Deshmukh
Chronological Timeline
Notes on Contributors
Bibliography
Index
