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Property from a Distinguished Private Collection

Max Liebermann

Biergarten in Brannenburg (Beer Garden in Brannenburg)

Auction Closed

June 30, 02:45 PM GMT

Estimate

60,000 - 80,000 GBP

Lot Details

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Property from a Distinguished Private Collection

Max Liebermann

1847 - 1935

Biergarten in Brannenburg (Beer Garden in Brannenburg)


signed M Liebermann and dated 96 (lower left)

oil on panel

37.9 by 46.1cm, 14⅞ by 18⅛in.

Framed: 68 by 76cm., 26¾ by 29⅞in.

Painted in 1894.

Hans Weidenbusch, Wiesbaden (sold: E.A. Fleischmann & J.P. Schneider, Frankfurt am Main, Auktion der Sammlung Hans Weidenbusch, Wiesbaden, 7th March 1898, lot 29)
Paul Cassirer, Berlin
Theodor Schall, Baden-Baden (acquired from the above in 1903. Sold: Cassirer-Helbing, Berlin, 26th October 1926, lot 24)
Private Collection, Germany
Morton D. May Collection (sold: Christie's, London, 23rd June 1986, lot 15)
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner
N.N., "Yorn Kunsthandel, Frankfurt, Die Sammlung Hans Weidenbusch, in Kunstchronik, 24th May 1897, vol. IX, no. 19, mentioned p. 317
Erich Hancke, Max Liebermann, sein Leben und seine Werke in seiner Liebermann-Biographie, Berlin, 1914 & 1923, mentioned p. 331
Matthias Eberle, Max Liebermann 1847-1935, Werkverzeichnis der Gemälde und Ölstudien, vol. I, 1865-1899, Munich, 1995, no. 1894/15, illustrated p. 425

The dating in the catalogue raisonné contradicts that on the picture itself and is based on a report by Erich Hancke who visited Liebermann in his studio in the autumn of 1894.