The Artist's Daughter Käthe Reading in a Chair
1893/1895
Max Liebermann
Artist, German, 1847 - 1935
Artwork overview
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Medium
black chalk and heightened with white chalk on gray wove paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 27.5 x 33 cm (10 13/16 x 13 in.)
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Accession Number
2007.111.119
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Egon Meilicke, Berlin. (sale, Neumeister, Munich, 10 December 1986, no. 844); Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1929
Hundert Jahre Berliner Kunst, Verein Berliner Künstler, Berlin, 1929, no. 904.
1959
Max Liebermann, Rathaus Reinickendorf/ Rathaus Tempelhof, Berlin, no. 67, fig. 9.
1962
Von Menzel bis Corinth: Gemälde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen und Lithographien aus Privatbesitz. Kunstamt Reinickendorf/Kunstamt Schöneberg. Berlin, 1962, no. 71.
2010
German Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1580 - 1900, NGA, 2010: 34, 36, 38, 298-299, no. 119 (entry by Peter Prange).
Bibliography
1918
Elias, Julius. Max Liebermann zu Hause. Berlin, 1918: 31.
1922
Wolff, Hans, ed. Zeichnungen von Max Liebermann. Dresden, 1922: pl. 55.
1930
Ostwald, Hans. Das Liebermann-Buch. Berlin, 1930: 259, no. 127.
1955
Der Tagesspiegel, 8 February 1955, no. 2862: 3 (reprod.).
Inscriptions
signed at lower left in black chalk: M. Liebermann; verso at upper right in graphite: Max Liebermann/Lesendes Mädchen
Watermarks
none
Wikidata ID
Q64614139