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MaxLiebermannEinsitzendesPaaramUfer;IllustrationsentwurfzuFontane’sRomanEffiBriest(Acouplesittingonawaterbank;compositionalstudyforanillustratededitionofFontane’snovelEffiBriest),c.1927Pencilonpaper,folded,201x161mm(sheetopened),103x161mm(sheetfolded)onrecto,lowerright,signedinpencil:“MLiebermann”onverso(outerfold),pencildrawingofawomaninalongdress;lowerleft,inscribed:“5[?]”Provenance:

(…)Bylatest2012:CorneliusGurlitt,Munich/SalzburgFrom6May2014:EstateofCorneliusGurlitt

Bibliographicalreference:

Fontane, Theodor. Effi Briest: Mit Steinzeichnungen von Max Liebermann. Berlin: OfficinaSerpentis,1927.[studyforplateonp.287]

Primarysources:

BusinessrecordsHildebrandGurlitt–possiblereferences:Salesledger1937–41: 4May1940[no.87] 11September1941[no.113] 12September1941[no.122]Salesledger1937–?: 4May1940[no.1321] 12September1941[no.1461] 22September1941[no.1461]

CorrespondenceHildebrandGurlitt–possiblereferences:13.October1944[vol.6,fol.123]October/November1946[vol.10,fol.252ff.]

SeizureInventory[Sicherstellungsverzeichnis],2012,no.SV34/29

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Furthersourcesconsulted(selected):Singer,HansW.,ed.ZeichnungenvonMaxLiebermann.Vol.2ofMeisterderZeichnungen.Leipzig:Baumgärtner'sBuchhandlung,1912.LiebermannalsZeichner.Exh.cat.,GaleriePaulCassirer,Berlin,February–March1916.Max Liebermann:Ausstellung zum70.Geburtstagdes Künstlers. Exh. cat., KöniglicheAkademiederKünste,Berlin,July–August1917.Elias, Julius.Max Liebermann.Vol. 8 of Graphiker der Gegenwart. Berlin: Neue Kunsthandlung,1921.Friedländer, Max J., ed.Max Liebermanns Graphische Kunst: mit 103 Nachbildungen, 2nd ed.Dresden:ErnstArnold,1922.Wolff,Hans.ZeichnungenvonMaxLiebermann.Dresden:ErnstArnold,1922.DieZeichnungssammlungdesHerrnL.,Berlin:316HandzeichnungenvonMaxLiebermann.Auct.cat.,HugoHelbing,Berlin,3–4March1925.275ZeichnungenvonMaxLiebermann:ausAnlassseines80.Geburtstages.Exh.cat.,GaleriePaulCassirer,Berlin,July–August1927.Schiefler.Gustav.MaxLiebermann:seingraphischesWerk:TheGraphicWork1876–1923.1sted.,Berlin:BrunoCassirer,1923;4thed.,rev.andenl.,SanFrancisco:AlanWofsy,1991.Max Liebermann: Briefe. Ed. Ernst Braun. Vols. 1–4. Baden-Baden: Deutscher Wissenschafts-Verlag,2011–2014.

CulturalPlunderbytheEinsatzstabReichsleiterRosenberg:DatabaseofArtObjectsattheJeudePaumeDatabase“CentralCollectingPointMünchen”Database“EntarteteKunst”Database“KunstsammlungHermannGöring”Fold3GettyProvenanceIndex,GermanSalesCatalogsLootedart.comLostArtRépertoiredesBiensSpoliésRijksbureauvoorKunsthistorischeDocumentatieVerzeichnisnationalwertvollerKunstwerke(“Reichslistevon1938”)WittLibrary

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Sincethisworkissignedanddoesnotbearanestatestamp,it isunlikelythatitwaspartoftheLiebermannestate.SincetheworkisacompositionalstudyforFontane’snovelEffiBriest,thedrawingcanbedatedtoabout1927whentheillustratededitionofthebookwaspublished.

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