Georg Brandes, 1901
Max Lievermann
Oil on canvas
Georg Brandes (1842-1927) was an influential Danish critic, literary historian and philosopher whose support of innovative European literature, including that of the autocratic, nihilist philosophy of the German Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), earned him an international reputation. The introspective gaze and the bold, exploratory handling of brushwork signals Liebermann's move beyond naturalism, underscoring his position as a leading avant-garde artist in Berlin. In 1898 he had been elected the first president of the city's Secession.*
From the exhibition
After Impressionism: Inventing Modern Art
(March – August 2023)
Explore a period of great upheaval when artists broke with established tradition and laid the foundations for the art of the 20th and the 21st centuries.
The decades between 1880 and the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 were a complex, vibrant period of artistic questioning, searching, risk-taking and innovation.
The exhibition celebrates the achievements of three giants of the era: Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin and follows the influences they had on younger generations of French artists, on their peers and on wider circles of artists across Europe in Barcelona, Berlin, Brussels and Vienna.
With nearly a hundred works by artists ranging from Klimt and Munch, Matisse and Picasso to Mondrian and Kandinsky complemented by a selection of sculpture by artists including Rodin and Camille Claudel, the exhibition follows the creation of a new, modern art, free of convention, taking in Expressionism, Cubism and Abstraction.
[*National Gallery]
Taken in the National Gallery
Georg Brandes, 1901
Max Lievermann
Oil on canvas
Georg Brandes (1842-1927) was an influential Danish critic, literary historian and philosopher whose support of innovative European literature, including that of the autocratic, nihilist philosophy of the German Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), earned him an international reputation. The introspective gaze and the bold, exploratory handling of brushwork signals Liebermann's move beyond naturalism, underscoring his position as a leading avant-garde artist in Berlin. In 1898 he had been elected the first president of the city's Secession.*
From the exhibition
After Impressionism: Inventing Modern Art
(March – August 2023)
Explore a period of great upheaval when artists broke with established tradition and laid the foundations for the art of the 20th and the 21st centuries.
The decades between 1880 and the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 were a complex, vibrant period of artistic questioning, searching, risk-taking and innovation.
The exhibition celebrates the achievements of three giants of the era: Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin and follows the influences they had on younger generations of French artists, on their peers and on wider circles of artists across Europe in Barcelona, Berlin, Brussels and Vienna.
With nearly a hundred works by artists ranging from Klimt and Munch, Matisse and Picasso to Mondrian and Kandinsky complemented by a selection of sculpture by artists including Rodin and Camille Claudel, the exhibition follows the creation of a new, modern art, free of convention, taking in Expressionism, Cubism and Abstraction.
[*National Gallery]
Taken in the National Gallery