DRESDEN.-The fifth exhibition in the series “Die Galerie Neue Meister zu Gast im Semperbau” will be presenting some of the highlights of German Impressionism this spring and summer. All the paintings by Max Liebermann (1847-1935) from the holdings of the Dresden collection will be displayed along with the story of their acquisition. In addition to the six pictures in the Gallery today, the three works will also be shown that have been either missing or sold since the Second World War: “The Seamstress” (1881), “Jews’ Lane in Amsterdam” (1905) and a portrait of Field Marshal von Bülow (1915/16). Thanks to intensive research work, it is possible for this portrait to be shown in public for the first time in decades.

The presentation of this group of Liebermann works in the Semperbau is an opportunity to examine the paintings individually, each of which deals with a different theme and belongs to a different creative phase in the life of the Berlin artist. The exhibition and the accompanying publication “Max Liebermann in der Dresdener Galerie” document all the pictures in detail and investigate the particular circumstances in which each was acquired and how the acquisition of the paintings fits into the history of the Gallery and the general reception of Liebermann as a painter and graphic artist in Dresden.