Max Liebermann
Self-portrait
Artist
Max Liebermann
1847 - Berlin - 1935
Further information
Die Authentizität der Zeichnung wurde von Drs. Margreet Nouwen, Berlin, nach Ansicht im Original 2024 gegenüber dem Einlieferer mündlich bestätigt.
Provenance
Theodor Stoperan Collection (1867–1938), Berlin;
Galerie Zickel and Theodor Stoperan & Co., Berlin;
Paul Graupe Auction House, Th. Stoperan Collection and items from other estates, 2–3 November 1928, Lot 115, Plate 20;
Carl Schellenberg Collection (1898–1968), acquired from the aforementioned, passed by inheritance to his daughter Marianne Sogalla.
Galerie Zickel and Theodor Stoperan & Co., Berlin;
Paul Graupe Auction House, Th. Stoperan Collection and items from other estates, 2–3 November 1928, Lot 115, Plate 20;
Carl Schellenberg Collection (1898–1968), acquired from the aforementioned, passed by inheritance to his daughter Marianne Sogalla.
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Description
Max Liebermann did not begin to engage with his own likeness until late in life and, apart from isolated early works, only produced self-portraits more frequently from 1902 onwards, when he was already 55 years old. In these, the established painter always presents himself in bourgeois propriety, wearing a suit and tie. Liebermann used his self-portraits less for self-expression than for the unsparing observation of his own physiognomy and the advancing process of ageing.