Im Garten (In the Garden)

Drypoint by Max Liebermann

1910

Schiefler 107 II. Signed in pencil lower right. Printed on laid paper with partial watermark. Large (full) margins. Toning from previous mounting. Plate: 6 1/2 in x 7 1/2 in.

Other signed impressions of this print have sold for between $1,750 (Ketterer and Kunst, 2004) and $2,300 (Koller, 2005).

Max Liebermann (1847-1935) was one of Europe’s most important modernist artists. Early in his career he explored motifs of simple, working people on the land, painted in a realist or naturalist style. Later he became a pioneer of modernism in Germany, paving the way for the many movements that would follow. From his base in Berlin, he broke away from the constraints of Kaiser and Academy and became – alongside Max Slevogt and Lovis Corinth – one of the leading representatives of German Impressionism.