“Avant-Garde: Max Liebermann and Impressionism in Germany” at the Museum Barberini

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The pioneering painter Max Liebermann introduced the radical energy of French impressionism into the German artistic tradition and founded the influential Berlin Secession, a breakaway movement that championed the avant-garde against the conservative establishment of the Prussian Academy. A defining figure who was celebrated in his own lifet.mes , Liebermann created portraits, landscapes and sundrenched scenes of everyday life — rural laborers, then urban leisure and bourgeois recreation — rendered with a vividness and spontaneity that earned him the label “the German Manet.” The Museum Barberini brings together more than 100 paintings to trace this pivotal chapter in modernism, presenting Liebermann alongside contemporaries including Lovis Corinth, Max Slevogt and a number of lesser-known figures.

^{Max Liebermann, “Biergarten ‘De Oude Vink’ bei Leiden,” 1905. Kunsthaus Zürich}