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In focus: Liebermann's pastels
A world in chalk
Max Liebermann, Blumenbeet im Wannseegarten mit Blick auf den Fischotterbrunnen, 1919, Pastell auf Velin, Privatbesitz – Max Liebermann, Blumenbeet im Wannseegarten mit Blick auf den Fischotterbrunnen, 1919, Pastell auf Velin, Privatbesitz
© Max Liebermann, Blumenbeet im Wannseegarten mit Blick auf den Fischotterbrunnen, 1919, Pastell auf Velin, Privatbesitz
The summer of 2026 is dominated by pastel art: Max Liebermann (1847-1935) created more than a hundred pastels over the years. These were presented for the first time as an independent group of works by the publisher and art dealer Bruno Cassirer on his 80th birthday in July 1927.
As pastels consist almost exclusively of pure color pigments, their luminosity and immediacy are unique. The exhibition is now dedicated to this medium for the first time and shows how much the pastel technique - a hitherto less recognized aspect of his work - shaped Liebermann's pictorial language. Accompany us and Liebermann from the Dutch coast to the Wannsee garden.
Even his contemporaries admired him for his art of representation:
"[E]nchanting[...] little[...] pastel sketches: greenish sea with a rain-gray sky and the fine, so lively figures in the background. [The result is not only softness, but at times a depth and richness of tone that is hardly surpassed by the color of the oil. And it is downright surprising that [Liebermann] also knows how to give the bright sunlight on such small sheets with this dry chalk dust."
(Harry David, in: Berliner Tageblatt, 1912)Translated with DeepL
As pastels consist almost exclusively of pure color pigments, their luminosity and immediacy are unique. The exhibition is now dedicated to this medium for the first time and shows how much the pastel technique - a hitherto less recognized aspect of his work - shaped Liebermann's pictorial language. Accompany us and Liebermann from the Dutch coast to the Wannsee garden.
Even his contemporaries admired him for his art of representation:
"[E]nchanting[...] little[...] pastel sketches: greenish sea with a rain-gray sky and the fine, so lively figures in the background. [The result is not only softness, but at times a depth and richness of tone that is hardly surpassed by the color of the oil. And it is downright surprising that [Liebermann] also knows how to give the bright sunlight on such small sheets with this dry chalk dust."
(Harry David, in: Berliner Tageblatt, 1912)Translated with DeepL
Runtime: Sat, 06/06/2026 to Mon, 21/09/2026
Price: €12.00
Reduced price: €6.00
Reduced price info: Reduction for pupils, students, trainees, unemployed and severely disabled persons (according to ID).
Children and young people up to 18 years free, ICOM members and members of the Max Liebermann Society and refugees free.
Reduced price: €6.00
Reduced price info: Reduction for pupils, students, trainees, unemployed and severely disabled persons (according to ID).
Children and young people up to 18 years free, ICOM members and members of the Max Liebermann Society and refugees free.
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