The Berlin painter Max Liebermann (1847-1935) is known to be one of the painters who brought the impressionistic painting style to Germany. In his last years he had built a summer house on the Wannsee lake in Berlin. There he painted over 400 oil paintings and pastel sketches making the garden to his main theme in his late work.
© Astrid Volquardsen, 2011
In 2004 we had a really good exhibition in my hometown Hamburg just about these paintings and his garden which was designed to his ideas. He had done some great paintings of a birch alley, which I fell in love with.
© Astrid Volquardsen, 2011
In the year of 2006 the house and garden could be opened to the public. Till then the Liebemann villa was leased to a diving club and only after massive protest it was made possible to turn it into a Museum and reconstruct the house and garden.
© Astrid Volquardsen, 2011
Finally I have made it to this most beautiful ensemble and did spent there entirely six hours. When they did the reconstruction of the garden they also planted a new birch alley along the path and when I saw it I instantly knew what must have catched Liebermanns‹ eye.
I sat down there and tried to do some sketching but unfortunately some (more) mosquitoes were biting really bad. I wondered if Liebermann did have the same problems?
Elke
Ich liebe sein Werk. Und wenn ich so an Deine Bilder denke, fällt mir folgender Satz von ihm ein: »Der klaut sich Farben und Linien aus dem Meer. Det is keene schlechte Jejend zum Klauen.« Gemeint ist der Maler Otto Niemeyer-Holstein. Dessen Atelier in Lüttenort besuche ich jedes Jahr und versuche so seinen Bildern nachzuspüren…
Herzliche Grüße aus Rostock.
Elke.
Astrid
Hallo Elke,
was für ein schönes Zitat.