Blick in den Wannseegarten. Um 1920.
Color Pastel.
Signed in lower right. On firm brownish paper. 25.8 x 34.8 cm (10.1 x 13.7 in), the full sheet.
Summery bright view of the famous garden on Wannsee.
PROVENANCE: Collection Bruno and Sadie Adriani, Berlin and Monterey/California (the jurist and art collector Bruno Adriani was active as lawyer in Potsdam as of 1910. Over the years he compiled an extensive collections of paintings. After his move to Geneva at the end of 1930s and his emigration in 1936 he bequeathed a large part to the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco in the 1960s).
Rose Marie Chamberlin, Los Angeles (inherited from aforementioned).
Private collection Los Angeles (gifted from aforementioend between 1985 and 1989).
LITERATURE: Cf. Jenns Eric Howoldt and Uwe M. Schneede (editors), Im Garten von Max Liebermann, ex. cat. Hamburger Kunsthalle, 11 June - 26 September 2004 / Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin, 12 October 2004- 9 January 2005, Bonn/Berlin 2004.
"That corner of the world smiles for me more than anywhere else.. (ille terrarum mihi praeter omnes angulus ridet..)" In 1921 Liebermann used the words from Horace's 6th ode to describe his summer house on Wannsee, which was his retreat from the bustling metropolis Berlin (cf. J. E. Howoldt, in: Im Garten von Max Liebermann, Bonn/Berlin 2004, p.11)
Called up: December 9, 2017 - ca. 13.12 h +/- 20 min.