Buchenwald bei Kösen, study for `Gedächtnisfeier für Kaiser Friedrich III in Kösen'

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Max Liebermann (1847-1935)
Buchenwald bei Kösen, study for 'Gedächtnisfeier für Kaiser Friedrich III in Kösen'
signed 'MLiebermann' (lower right)
charcoal on paper
18 1/8 x 11 ½ in. (46.1 x 29.1 cm.)
Drawn in 1888

Provenance

Georg Less, Breslau, by 1914.
Anneliese van der Zyl-Less, Majorca, by descent from the above in the 1960s.
Nikki van der Zyl, London, by descent from the above in 2005.

Literature

E. Hancke, Chronik, Eine Zeichnung von Liebermann, Buchenwald bei Kösen, in `Kunst und Künstler', vol. 9, no. 12, 1 September 1911, p. 650 (illustrated p. 608).
E. Hancke, Max Liebermann, Sein Leben und seine Werke, Berlin, 1914 (illustrated p. 245; titled `Buchenhalle in Kösen').
Exh. cat. Max Liebermann in seiner Zeit, Nationalgalerie Berlin, 1979-1980 (mentioned under no. 234).
M. Eberle, Max Liebermann, Werkverzeichnis der Gemälde und Ölstudien, vol. 1, Munich, 1995, p. 338.

Lot Essay

Sold with a photo-certificate from Drs Margreet Nouwen.

According to Drs Margreet Nouwen, this drawing from 1888 is a study for the oil Gedächtnisfeier für Kaiser Friedrich III in Kösen (Eberle 1889/2) Tate Gallery, London, completed the following year.

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