Max Liebermann

The Artist's Granddaughter with her Nanny in the Garden at Wannsee, 1918

Max Liebermann had purchased a plot of land on the western banks of the Großer Wannsee, south-west of Berlin, in 1909. In the following year, he built a luxurious residence that he used as his summer home and which he referred to proudly as a “palace on the lake”. When Liebermann’s usual summer trips to the Dutch coast became impossible with the outbreak of the First World War, he continued his work en plein air in the spacious gardens at Wannsee. Painted briskly, Liebermann’s main interest in t...

Signatur: M Liebermann 1918., unten rechts

(...); Privatsammlung, USA (bis 2020); MKdW (2020).
Matthias Eberle: Nachtrag zum Werkverzeichnis der Gemälde und Ölstudien, Nr. 1918/23a (Publikation in Bearbeitung).

Max Liebermann (1847 - 1935)

The Artist's Granddaughter with her Nanny in the Garden at Wannsee

1918

Oil on canvas

36 x 48 cm

Human

Inv.-Nr. 1 LIE 09

Museum Kunst der Westküste

Access 2020

Not on display