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Curt Liebich was trained as an artist in Dresden and Berlin. In 1896 he married the sister-in-law of the artist Wilhelm Hasemann, who had lived in the Black Forest Region since the mid-1880s. This prompted Liebich to move with her to Gutach, and from then on his works mainly focussed on rural life in the Gutach Valley. His motifs were partially responsible for introducing the “bollenhut” hat and traditional cottages of the Black Forest to an international audience.
Hasemann and Liebich were founders of the Gutach painter's colony, and the Hasemann-Liebich Museum was opened in Gutach in 2005 in recognition of their importance to the region's cultural history.