Stehender Bauer auf einem Wege. 1897.
Oil on paper, laminated on canvas.
Signed and dated in the lower left. With a numbered and titled gallery label "No. 4[29]4 Stehender Bauer" as well as two further numbered labels "79" and "949/34" on the reverse of the canvas. 50 x 35 cm (19.6 x 13.7 in).


• Painted in Holland, where Liebermann found his most important motifs.
• One of Liebermann's last peasant studies, made in the transition period to an Impressionist style.
• Programatic authenticity: an intense, direct encounter between painter and model.
• In 1897, Liebermann was at the height of his fame with his simple, rural Dutch motifs, and the Academy of Arts in Berlin honored him with an exhibition on the occasion of his 50th birthday.

PROVENANCE: Joseph Stransky Collection, New York (until 1914)
Kunstsalon Paul Cassirer, Berlin (acquired from the above in 1914, PC no.-2401)
Albert Schmidt, Berlin (1921).
Kunstsalon Paul Cassirer, Berlin (1921, PC no.-4294).
Alfred Flechtheim, Berlin (acquired from the above on April 4. 1921).
Probably privately owned, Frankfurt (1927).
Kunsthaus Bühler, Munich 1973.
Private ownership Bremen.
Art dealer Wolfgang Werner, Bremen/Berlin.
Private collection, Northern Germany (acquired from the above in 1975, since then in family possession).

EXHIBITION: Max Liebermann, Werke aus Frankfurter Privatbesitz, special exhibition at the Galerie M. Goldschmidt, Frankfurt a.M. December 1927, no. 15 (presumably "Holländer"; not clearly identifiable).
Max Liebermann in his time, Nationalgalerie, Berlin, 6 Sept. - 4 Nov. 1979; Haus der Kunst München, Munich, 15 Dec. 1979 - 17 Feb. 1980; no. 75.

LITERATURE: Matthias Eberle, Max Liebermann. Catalogue raisonné of paintings and oil studies, vol. I: 1865-1899, Munich 1995, no. 1897/22 (illu.).
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Erich Hancke, Max Liebermann, Sein Leben und seine Werke, mit einem Verzeichnis der Gemälde und Pastelle bis 1913, Berlin 1914, p. 537.