Max Liebermann

By the Sea – Beach Picture, 1911

Summer visitors to an almost glistening bright sandy beach, mainly well-dressed young women with their children, enjoy the fresh breeze of the sea whose waves are lapping gently against the shore. The main focus is on the broad beach due to the elevated position of the viewer and the slender section of the sky, which only accounts for one fifth of the picture’s top section. Liebermann, who had visited the Dutch coast each year since the early 1870s, only embraced the beach as a motif shortly bef...

Signatur und Datierung: M. Liebermann 1911, unten rechts, handschriftlich

Carl Steinbart, Berlin-Lichterfelde (bis 1913); Paul Cassirer, Berlin (PC Nr. 2049, 1913–1917); Paul von Bleichert, Leipzig/Zürich (erworben bei Paul Cassirer am 28.1.1917); Moderne Galerie Thannhauser, München (Angebotskatalog Juli 1917, Nr. 66, Abb.); (…); Gemälde-Cabinett Unger, München (1986); Galerie Ludorff, Düsseldorf (1987); Privatbesitz, Deutschland (seit 1987); MKdW (Dauerleihgabe aus Privatbesitz seit 2020).
Matthias Eberle: Max Liebermann 1847–1935. Werkverzeichnis der Gemälde und Ölstudien, Bd. 2, 1900–1935, München 1996, Nr. 1911/21.

Max Liebermann (1847 - 1935)

By the Sea – Beach Picture

1911

Oil on canvas

63 x 74.5 cm

Human

Inv.-Nr. 2 LIE 01_LG

Museum Kunst der Westküste

On permanent loan 2020

Not on display

Derzeit zu sehen / Currently on display: Landesmuseum Hannover (bis / until May 2026)