Anders Zorns zwei Porträts von Max Liebermann

Abstract

Summary in English Anders Zorn's two portraits of Max Liebermann. From the Parisian and Berlin art world of the 1890's. In the 1880's the German artist Max Liebermann (1847–1935) went to Paris regularly, both to keep in contact with the Parisian art world and to see his own pictures on view there. He made friends with Scandinavian artists, among others the Finns Albert Edelfelt and Ville Vallgren, the Norwegian Frits Thaulow and the Dane P.S. Kroyer. But above all he appreciated the Swedish artist Anders Zorn (1860–1920) whom Liebermann leatnt to know in 1888 or 1889 and whom he was to support in later Berlin years when he had become an influential personage as president of the Berlin Secession (from 1899). Liebermann and Zorn harmonized from the beginning in their opinion about art and artists. They both admired Rembrandt and Frans Hals, but particularly they took the same view of contemporary art. This means that they rejected the academic style and disliked avantgarde symbolism as well, whereas they mo...