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Off to Italy!
With Liebermann in Venice, Florence and Rome
in 2024, the Liebermann Villa on Wannsee presents for the first time Max Liebermann's eventful relationship with Italy and its cultural landscape with a focus on his "Italian" works, his exhibition participations there, and the reception that took place.
At the latest since Goethe's Italian Journey (1786-88), Italy has been an unavoidable travel destination and important place of inspiration for artists from German-speaking countries. Max Liebermann (1847-1935) also approached the country south of the Alps, to which, however, he initially cultivated a distant and sometimes ambivalent relationship. Even if his painting home was Holland, he declared in a text dedicated to the Dutch painter Jozef Israëls: "Perhaps Italy is in and of itself more picturesque than Holland; but we now see Italy only in more or less bad [...] Italian vedute: Italy is too picturesque" (quoted in Max Liebermann: Gesammelte Schriften, Berlin 1922, p. 99).
Despite such claims, Liebermann made at least six trips to northern Italy, Tuscany, and Lazio between 1878 and 1913. On site, he came into contact with representatives of the Italian art scene, regularly exhibited his works, and found inspiration for his own works. In 1908, for example, the management of the Uffizi asked him to paint a self-portrait for their own portrait collection. His participation in the first International Art Exhibition of the city of Venice in 1895 was the prelude to regular participation in Italian art shows.
The exhibition is organized in cooperation with the Museum Casa die Goethe in Rome and stands under the patronage of the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany to the Italian Republic, and the Italian Embassy in the Federal Republic of Germany.
At the latest since Goethe's Italian Journey (1786-88), Italy has been an unavoidable travel destination and important place of inspiration for artists from German-speaking countries. Max Liebermann (1847-1935) also approached the country south of the Alps, to which, however, he initially cultivated a distant and sometimes ambivalent relationship. Even if his painting home was Holland, he declared in a text dedicated to the Dutch painter Jozef Israëls: "Perhaps Italy is in and of itself more picturesque than Holland; but we now see Italy only in more or less bad [...] Italian vedute: Italy is too picturesque" (quoted in Max Liebermann: Gesammelte Schriften, Berlin 1922, p. 99).
Despite such claims, Liebermann made at least six trips to northern Italy, Tuscany, and Lazio between 1878 and 1913. On site, he came into contact with representatives of the Italian art scene, regularly exhibited his works, and found inspiration for his own works. In 1908, for example, the management of the Uffizi asked him to paint a self-portrait for their own portrait collection. His participation in the first International Art Exhibition of the city of Venice in 1895 was the prelude to regular participation in Italian art shows.
The exhibition is organized in cooperation with the Museum Casa die Goethe in Rome and stands under the patronage of the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany to the Italian Republic, and the Italian Embassy in the Federal Republic of Germany.
Runtime: Sat, 04/05/2024 to Mon, 02/09/2024
Price: €10.00
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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