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Max Liebermann

On June 21, 2026 - 19th Century, 20th Century, German

Max Liebermann, July 20, 1847 – February 8, 1935, was a German painter, printmaker, and draftsman associated with Realism, Impressionism, and the Berlin Secession. Born in Berlin to a Jewish textile-manufacturing family, he studied at the Weimar Saxon-Grand Ducal Art School and worked in Paris and the Netherlands, where he developed subjects drawn from labor, orphanages, rural life, and urban leisure.

His paintings include early social-realist subjects, Dutch labor scenes, beach and terrace pictures, portraits, and late garden views at Wannsee. He was connected with German and French Impressionist circles and became a central figure in the Berlin Secession, serving as its president from 1899.

Liebermann influenced younger German painters through his exhibition leadership and public role rather than through a formal school. His work is held by the Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin; Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Städel Museum, Frankfurt; Neue Pinakothek, Munich; Museum Folkwang, Essen; and other major collections.

Self-Portrait, 1925
Oil on canvas, 44 x 35 in
Neue Pinakothek, Munich

Women Plucking Geese, 1872
Oil on canvas, 47 x 67.1 in
Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin

The Twelve-Year-Old Jesus in the Temple, 1879
Oil on canvas, 58.9 x 51.5 in
Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg

Max Liebermann, The Courtyard of the Orphanage in Amsterdam/Free Time in the Amsterdam Orphanage, 1881–1882 Oil on canvas, 30.9 x 42.3 in Städel Museum, Frankfurt

The Courtyard of the Orphanage in Amsterdam/Free Time in the Amsterdam Orphanage, 1881–1882
Oil on canvas, 30.9 x 42.3 in
Städel Museum, Frankfurt

Cobbler's Workshop, 1881–1882
Oil on canvas, 25.1 x 31.4 in
Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin

The Bleaching Ground, 1882–1883
Oil on canvas, 42.9 x 68.1 in
Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne

Beer Garden in Munich, 1884
Oil on canvas, 37.4 x 27 in
Neue Pinakothek, Munich

Flax Spinners in Laren, 1887
Oil on canvas, 53.1 x 91.3 in
Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin

The Net Menders, 1887–1889
Oil on canvas, 71 x 88.9 in
Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg

Alley in Overveen, 1895
Oil on canvas
Museum Folkwang, Essen

Two Riders on the Beach, c 1901–1903
Oil on canvas, 27.9 x 35.8 in
Private Collection

Terrace of the Restaurant Jacob at Nienstedten on the Elbe, 1902
Oil on canvas, 27.6 x 39.4 in
Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg

Max Liebermann, The Parrot Man, 1902 Oil on canvas, 29.5 x 23.6 in Museum Folkwang, Essen

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Oil on canvas, 29.5 x 23.6 in<br />

Museum Folkwang, Essen</p>

Portrait of Wilhelm Bode, 1904
Oil on canvas, 52.4 x 40.2 in
Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin

Garden Bench, 1916
Oil on canvas, 28 x 33.9 in
Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin

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Hans Krell

On April 15, 2026 - 16th Century, German

Hans Krell, German painter, c 1490 - 1565

Portrait of Louis II, King of Hungary, c 1522

Oil on panel, 12.3 x 10.7 in //

Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Mary, Queen of Hungary, 1524

Oil on lime panel, 17.9 x 14.1 in //

State Gallery in the New Residence, Bamberg

Portrait of George the Pious of Brandenburg, 1522

Hungarian National Museum

Battle of Orsha, c 1524 - 1530

Tempera on oak wood, 64.9 x 103.1 in //

National Museum in Warsaw

Female Portrait, 1529

Leipzig, Museum of Fine Arts

Princess Emilia of Saxony, c 1530

Oil on panel, 12.4 x 10.1 in //

Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

Portrait of Philipp von Hessen, possibly 1534

Oil on oak wood, 31.6 x 25.1 in //

Wartburg Castle, Eisenach, Germany

Electress Hedwig of Brandenburg, 1537

Grunewald Hunting Lodge, Berlin

Portrait of August I, Elector and Duke of Saxony, 1561

Oil on canvas, 82.3 x 38.6 in //

State Art Collections, Dresden

Elizabeth Thurzová, before 1565

Prague Castle

Portrait Of A Man, Aged 22 Wearing A Fur Coat, 16th century

Portrait of an Architect, c 1586

Oil on panel, 17.7 x 13 in

Gabriele Münter

On February 10, 2026 - 19th Century, 20th Century, february 19, German

Gabriele Münter, German painter, February 19, 1877 – May 19, 1962

Wassily Kandinsky,

Portrait of Gabriele Münter, 1905

Oil on canvas, 17.7 x 17.7 in

Lenbachhaus, Munich

Sunset over Staffelsee 1908-1911

Portrait of Marianne von Werefkin 1909

Still Life, 1908

Self-portrait, c 1909-1910

Oil on Cardboard, 19.3 x 13.2 in

View from Her Brother´s House in Bonn, 1908

Oil on Cardboard, 18.6 x 13.2 in //

Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid

School House, Murnau, 1908

Oil on Cardboard, 16 x 12.9 in //

Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid

Murnau on May, 1924

Oil on canvas, 20 x 15 in //

Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid

Portrait of Anna Roslund, 1917

Oil on canvas, 37 3/16 × 26 15/16 in //

Leicester Museums, UK

The Blue Lake, 1954

Oil on canvas, 19 11/16 × 25 9/16 in //

Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz, Austria

Still Life, Red, 1909

Oil on board, 20 7/8 × 15 3/8 in //

McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas

Still Life on the Tram/After Shopping, c 1909–12

Painting on board, 19 3/4 × 13 1/2 in //

The Gabriele Münter and Johannes Eichner Foundation, Munich

Breakfast of the Birds, 1934

Oil on board, 18 × 21 3/4 in //

National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC

Max Klinger

On February 8, 2026 - 19th Century, 20th Century, february 19, German

Max Klinger, German artist, February 18, 1857 – July 5, 1920

Beethoven, 1902

Marble

Leipzig

Study of a Female Head

Painting, 11 x 8 in

Belvedere, Vienna

A Delegation

Oil on panel

Museum of Fine Art, Leipzig, Germany

Landscape at the Unstrut, 1912

Oil on canvas, 75.5 x 49.6 in //

Lindenau-Museum, Altenburg, Germany

From the Cycle "A Glove": Abduction (Opus VI: Plate 9/10), 1893

Etching on paper, 4.5 x 10.3 in //

Albertina, Vienna

The Colosseum in Rome, 1888

Oil on canvas, 30.3 x 40.2 in //

Galerie Neue Meister, Dresden

The Blue Hour, 1890

Oil on canvas, 75.3 × 69.2 in //

Museum of Fine Art, Leipzig, Germany

Nemi, c 1890

Oil on canvas, 77.2 × 39.4 in //

Art Museum Moritzburg, Halle, German

First Future, from the series "Eva the Future, Opus III, #2", 1879–80)

Etching with aquatint, 14.2 x 9.3 in //

Saint Louis Art Museum

Portrait of Cornelia Paczka-Wagner, 1892

Oil on canvas

Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie, Regensburg, Germany

Male Portrait

Painting, 14.7 x 12.6 in //

Belvedere, Vienna

Max Klinger by Nicola Perscheid, circa 1900

Cupid, Death, and the Beyond, from the series Intermezzi, Opus IV, no. 12, 1881

Etching and aquatint, 6.2 × 16 in //

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Max Beckmann

On January 31, 2026 - 20th Century, february 12, German

Max Beckmann, German artist, February 12, 1884-December 28, 1950

Self-Portrait, House Gable in Background, drypoint, 1918 Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky

Children Of The Twilight/Orcus, 1939 Oil on canvas Private collection

Ritz Bar, Paris, 1939 Oil on canvas Private collection

View from the Rupenhorn on the Havel, 1936 Oil on canvas Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin

The George Family , 1935 Oil on canvas Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin

Women's Bath, 1919 Oil on canvas Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin

Large Fish Still Life, 1927 Oil on canvas, 37.7 x 55.3 in // Hamburger Kunsthalle

Bend in the Canal on the front in Ypres during the First World War, 1915 Pen, black ink and pencil on vellum paper, 14.8 x 15.6 in

Woman Lying on a Sofa, 1944 Black ink pen drawing over pencil on cream-coloured ribbed handmade paper, 13 x 9,2 in

Woman's Head with Necklace, 1944 Black ink drawing over pencil on cream-colored ribbed handmade paper, 11.1 x 9.1 in

Portrait of Walter Carl, 1916 Drypoint and etching Honolulu Museum of Art

Minette/Girl's head, 1922 Etching Osthaus-Museum Hagen, Germany

Franz Marc

On January 29, 2026 - 20th Century, february 8, German

Franz Marc, German artist, February 8, 1880-March 4, 1916

Franz Marc, 1910

Dog Lying in the Snow, 1911 Oil on canvas, 41.3 x 25 in // Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany

Young Boy with a Lamb/The Good Shepherd, 1911 Oil on canvas, 34.6 × 32.9 in // Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

The Little Blue Horses, 1911 Oil on canvas, 24.2 x 39.7 in // Staatsgalerie Stuttgart

Red Bull, 1912 Gouache on paper, 13.3 x 16.9 in // Pushkin Museum, Moscow

The Foxes, 1913 Oil on canvas, 34.6 x 26 in // Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf

The Tiger, 1912 Color woodcut print on paper, 43.9 × 40 in // Lenbachhaus, Munich

Franz Marc, The Tower of the Blue Horses, Oil on canvas, 78.7 x 51.1 in Shown in the "Degenerate Art" Exhibition in Munich, July to November 1937; Missing since 1945

The Tower of the Blue Horses, Oil on canvas, 78.7 x 51.1 in // Shown in the "Degenerate Art" Exhibition in Munich, July to November 1937; Missing since 1945

The Fate of the Animals, 1913 Color on canvas, 77.1 x 104.7 in // Kunstmuseum Basel

Dreaming Horses, 1913 Watercolor, gouache, ink, and graphite on paper, 15.5 x 18.4 in // Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

Animal Legend, unknown date Woodcut

Two Cats, before 1910 Lenbachhaus, Munich

The Panther, 1908 Bronze, 3.8 x 4.7 in; thickness: 3.9 in // Lenbachhaus, Munich

Hans Weiditz the Younger

On January 7, 2026 - 16th Century, German

Hans Weiditz the Younger, German artist, 1495 – c 1537 Bern

Voyeurism, before 1544 Woodcut

Nymphaea alba, or European White Waterlily, from "Herbarium Vivae Eicones," 1530

Master's Graduation, 16th century Woodcut Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Emperor Maximilian Listening to the Mass, 1518 Woodcut, 11.3 × 8.4 in

Hobbyhorse Rider

Gossip Sisters and the Devil

Doctor and Servant

Dancer and his Doxy

Prayer on the Mount of Olives

Drinker and his Wife, 1521

Cheese Farmer and his Wife, 1521

The Rooster as a Quack Doctor, 16th century Woodcut

Karl Hubbuch

On December 13, 2025 - 20th Century, German, november 21

Karl Hubbuch, German painter, November 21, 1891 – December 26, 1979

Karl Hubbuch in Studio, c 1927

Karl Hubbuch, Two Models, c 1926 Black chalk and coloured crayon on eight pieces of paper joined together, 30.3 x 25.6 in National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh

Two Models, c 1926 Black chalk and coloured crayon on eight pieces of paper joined together, 30.3 x 25.6 in // National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh

Twice Hilde II, c 1929 Oil on canvas mounted on masonite, 59 x 30.3 in // Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

Lydia and Betty Drypoint on wove paper, 13 3/16 x 15 13/16 in // National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Untitled Woodcut, 19.7 x 17.3 in //

Lissy in the Cafe, 1931

The Art Judges, 1930 Private collection

Nude in the Bathroom Oil on canvas laid down on board, 42 1/8 x 29½ in // Private collection

Street Girls

The Classroom, 1925

The Swimmer of Cologne, 1923-1925 Drawing

Kaffeeklatsch/Afternoon Tea, 1933

Everyone Shows What He Has (Bruno And His Women)

Hilde With Hairdryer, Bicycle and Breuer Chair Black chalk and colored crayon on paper

Hans von Bartels

On December 4, 2025 - 19th Century, december 25, German

Hans von Bartels, German painter, December 25, 1856 – October 5, 1913

Hans von Bartels, before 1913

The Cemetery from the Church of San Miniato al Monte in Florence

At the Dunes, 1900 Gouache on paper, 27.5 x 40.1 in // Nationalmuseum, Stockholm

Fisherwomen on the Beach Private collection

Old Wandrahm, Hamburg, 1890 Gouache on paper, 16.9 x 24 in // Hamburger Kunsthalle

Three-Master in the Harbor Watercolor and Gouache, 13.2 x 18.3 in Private collection

Cemetery near Ragusa, 1901 Watercolor

A Dutchwoman, Katwijk 1895

Torpedo Boat on the Attack, Kiel 1895 Watercolor

Two Girls in the Sand Dunes, 1898 Oil on canvas, 19.6 x 23.6 in // Unknown location

Study of a Farmboy in the Field, 1907 Oil on canvas, 18.9 x 13.2 in

The Flower Garden Gouache on cardboard, 26.3 x 22.6 in // Private collection

Fishing Boats Unloading the Catch, before 1912 Oil and mixed technique on canvas, 39.4 x 59.1 in // Private collection

Otto Dix

On August 11, 2025 - 20th Century, december 2, German

Otto Dix, German painter, December 2, 1891-July 25, 1969

Hugo Erfurth, Otto Dix with a Brush, 1929 Oil pigment print

Sunrise, 1913 Oil on canvas, 20 x 26 in

Three Prostitutes On The Street, 1925 Oil on canvas Private collection

Prager Street, 1920 Oil and collage on canvas Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Germany

Stormtroopers Advance Under a Gas Attack, from The War, 1924 Drypoint and aquatint etching

The Skull, from The War, 1924

Lens Being Bombed, from The War, 1924

Martha Dix, 1928 Oil on canvas

Mother with Child, 1921 Oil on canvas, 31.9 x 47.2 in // Galerie Neue Meister, Dresden, Germany

The Artist's Parents, 1921 Oil on canvas, 44.5 × 39 in // Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland

Portrait of the Journalist Sylvia Von Harden, 1926 Oil and tempera on wood, 35 x 47.6 in // Georges Pompidou Center, Paris

Engraving from "The War," 1924

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