Schäferstudien aus Kösen

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Max Liebermann (1847-1935)
Schäferstudien aus Kösen
signed 'M Liebermann' (twice, recto) and with inscription '1890 Kösen' (verso)
black chalk on grey paper
14¾ x 21½ in. (373 x 545 mm.)

Provenance

Purchased at Karl & Faber, Munich, June 1958 (Auktion 64), lot 575.

Literature

H. Wolff, Zeichnungen von Max Liebermann, Dresden, 1922, pl. 42.
M. Eberle, Max Liebermann (1847-1935), Werkverzeichnis der Gemälde und Ölstudien, I, Munich, 1995, p. 328, under no. 1888/2.

Lot Essay

One of a small group of studies of shepherds and rural scenes drawn en plein air by Liebermann from the Spring to the end of August 1888, while staying at Bad Kösen in the Thuringian Forest. Another study from this period, entitled Allee in Kukulau bei Kösen, dated 1888 and in the same technique, was illustrated in H. Wolff, op. cit., pl. 41, while a third, probably not drawn from nature, is in the Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin, Für Max Liebermann, exhib. cat., Berlin, 1985, no. 213. This sequence of studies led to a canvas of A shepherd with his flock among trees in a New York private collection, M. Eberle, op. cit, p. 328, no. 1888/2.

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