Max Liebermann
Buchenwald bei Kösen - Studie zu "Gedächtnisfeier für Kaiser Friedrich III in Kösen"
1888
Chalk on brown paper 46.1 x 29.1 cm Framed under glass. Signed 'M Liebermann' lower right. - Horizontal fold traces and marginal defects.
Preliminary study for the painting "Gedächtnisfeier für Kaiser Friedrich III. in Kösen - 1. Fassung" from 1899 (Eberle 1899/2; Tate Gallery, London).
Certificate
With an expert report by Margreet Nouwen, Berlin, dated 1 December 2014
Provenance
Stadtverordneter Georg Leß (Breslau 1871-1953 Uruguay); since then by endowment or inheritance in the family; Anneliese Rosalie van der Zeyl-Less and Dr. Werner van der Zeyl; Nikki van der Zyl, London; Christie's South Kensington, Impressionist & Modern Art & Picasso Ceramics, 5 Februay 2016, lot 86; Private possession, North-Rhine Westphalia
Literature
Erich Hancke, Chronik - Eine Zeichnung von Liebermann. Buchenwald bei Kösen, in: Kunst und Künstler, vol. 9, issue 12, 1911, with illus. p. 608; Erich Hancke, Max Liebermann. Sein Leben und seine Werke, Berlin 1914, full-page colour illus. p. 245; Max Liebermann in seiner Zeit, exhib. cat. Nationalgalerie Berlin, Munich 1979/80, mentioned as comparative work under cat. no. 234; Matthias Eberle, Max Liebermann. Werkverzeichnis der Gemälde und Ölstudien, vol. 1, Munich 1995, p. 338 under no. 1889/2