Exhibition- Max Liebermann

Max Liebermann was born in Berlin in 1847 to an upper-class Jewish family. As a young man he studied law and philosophy at the University of Berlin, but his greatest passion was always art.

In 1920, he was appointed president of the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin—a position he was forced to resign from under Nazi pressure in 1933. His works were removed from public collections and confiscated from private ones. He died of natural causes in his home in Berlin in February 1935. News of his death was censored, and the Prussian Academy did not publicly acknowledge his passing. His funeral was held three days later at the Jewish Cemetery on Schönhauser Allee in Berlin.

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