Waldarbeiter - Studie zu dem Wandbild "Winter" fur das Rathaus von Altona

Details

Max Liebermann (1847-1935)
Waldarbeiter - Studie zu dem Wandbild "Winter" fur das Rathaus von Altona
signed and dated ‘M. Liebermann 98’ (lower right)
oil on panel
25 1/4 x 19 1/4 in. (64 x 49 cm.)
Painted in 1898

Provenance

Boris Schwarz, Berlin, by whom acquired in the 1930s.
Patricia Schwarz, New York.
Anonymous sale, Christie’s, London, 31 March 1987, lot 83A.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Literature

M. Eberle, Max Liebermann 1847-1935, Werkverzeichnis der Gemälde und Ölstudien, vol. I, 1865-1899, Munich, 1995, no. 1898/22, p. 495 (illustrated).

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Lot Essay

The industrialist and landowner Arthur Schnitzler commissioned Liebermann to create a cycle of large-format paintings featuring the four seasons for Schloss Klink in Mecklenberg. The motif of the three woodsmen working on a log laying on the ground can be found in the cycle’s depiction of Winter. Unfortunately, after Soviet troops were billeted in Klink Castle in 1945, nothing remained of Liebermann’s wall paintings. They are recorded only in documents and historical photographs.

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