Max Liebermann

Seascape With Sailing Ship, 1902

A stylised, sketch-like sailing boat on gossamer water is reflected on the water’s broken surface. It seems small against the broad and expansive horizon, visible at a slight elevation in the background. The silhouette of a village looming over the landscape is only hinted at – a church steeple rising above the rooftops and extending into the subtly coloured sky. The monochrome sailing boat matches the colour of the coastal area behind. It seems barely to rise out of the water and was painted by...

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Privatsammlung, Norddeutschland (bis 2012); MKdW (2012).
Max Liebermann und Zeitgenossen. Neue Werke in der Sammlung, hrsg. von Ulrike Wolff-Thomsen, Ausst.-Kat. Museum Kunst der Westküste, Alkersum/ Föhr, Heide 2016, Abb. S. 91, 75, Kat. 39.
Das Blatt wird in das in Vorbereitung befindliche Werkverzeichnis der Pastelle, Aquarelle und Gouachen Liebermanns aufgenommen.

Max Liebermann (1847 - 1935)

Seascape With Sailing Ship

1902

Watercolour on paper

11.3 x 14.4 cm

Human

Inv.-Nr. 5 LIE 01

Museum Kunst der Westküste

Access 2012

Not on display