Today

  • Exhibitions
    11:00 until 18:00
  • Collection / It's all Art?!
    11:00 until 18:00

  • Admission: 16 € / concessions 12 €

  • Children / young people under 18 : free

  • Members of Friends of the Kunstpalast: free

Ticket-Shop
Kartoffelernte
Potato Harvest
Kunstpalast - Horst Kolberg - ARTOTHEK
YouTube

Potato Harvest, 1875

ArtistMax Liebermann, Berlin 1847–1935 Berlin
Oil on canvas
Dimensions without frame108,5 × 172 cm
Dimensions with frame146 × 207 × 16 cm
Status
on display, room 014
About the workThe field occupies a large area of the painting; the harvesters bend low to the damp earth. Such depictions of poverty and hard toil, which neither tell a story nor specifically appeal to the viewer’s compassion, were rejected by contemporary art critics as “Schmutzmalerei” (“dirty painting”). At this point in time, Max Liebermann was not yet the celebrated Berlin “painter prince” that he later became. He lived in France and was inspired by many of his fellow artists there. He is said to have begun this picture in Barbizon, where landscape artists sought a new proximity to nature by working outdoors.
AccessionAcquisition 1953
Provenance[...]; 1884 Johannes Sperl, Aibling, erworben durch Schenkung vom Künstler; o.D. Sammlung Paul Cassirer, Berlin; 1913 Gesellschaft zur Ergänzung der Sammlungen des städtischen Kunstmuseums Düsseldorf, angekauft von Cassirer; 1938 im Tausch abgegeben an die Kunsthandlung Johannes Hinrichsen, Berlin/Alt-Aussee, Österreich;12.9.1953 wiedererworben von Johannes Hinrichsen, Alt-Aussee
Inventory numberM 5019
YouTube
Contact
sammlung@kunstpalast.de
Permalink
https://sammlung.kunstpalast.de/en/objects/141733/kartoffelernte
Back
Expand
de