Zoological Garden with Walkers, a Carriage and a Tram Max Liebermann

• Max Liebermann once again demonstrates his mastery of painting • The lively Tiergarten scenes are among the most popular motifs of his late work, particularly the depictions featuring numerous figures with a horse-drawn carriage and a tram • With great ease, he captures the late-summer light and atmosphere beneath the canopy of leaves along the Tiergarten avenue Whilst Max Liebermann spent the summer months for many years up to the outbreak of the First World War on the North Sea coast in Holland, from 1914 onwards he was confined to his homes in Berlin and Wannsee, initially for political reasons and later due to his advancing age. He now found numerous sources of inspiration for his paintings in Berlin’s vast Tiergarten, just a few steps from his magnificent city mansion on Pariser Platz, as well as in the surrounding Brandenburg countryside and in the garden of his summer house on the Wannsee. Depictions of the Große Seestraße in Wannsee and the avenue in the Tiergarten appear countless times throughout his extensive body of work. Liebermann possessed an inexhaustible repertoire of background figures, which he varied freely and in ever-new ways, so that no two works are alike: From smartly dressed Sunday strollers in summer, children at play, horse-riders and ice-skaters on the lake in winter, to various vehicles – be they carriages or modern motor cars – and the bright yellow tram carriages that emphasise the proximity to the city. At the Wannsee, it is the city dwellers on day trips who come from nearby Berlin at the weekend and bring the otherwise quiet street to life. The tree-lined avenue, as a reflection of nature organised by human hands, always forms the unifying element that lends a sense of depth to the diagonal composition. It serves as a stage for the elements added by Liebermann – the walkers, children, horsemen, carriages and the like – which are staged with great dramatic effect. The true protagonist in all these works, however, is the interplay of light and shadow reflected in the canopy of the avenue. In the lively interplay of light and dark, the sunbeams piercing through with striking precision and reflected by the bright clothes of the women and children, and the flash of light blue sky glimpsed between the treetops—captured with only sketchy brushstrokes—Liebermann once again demonstrates his mastery of painting. Having already utilised the play of light reflections in the foliage of trees for his paintings created in Holland as early as the 1880s, he now also makes it a perfected stylistic device in his urban park landscapes. A comparable ‘Tiergartenallee’ was sold at KARL&FABER in December 2023 for €609,600. | 1847 - Berlin - 1935 | Moderne Kunst | Gemälde | Nummer: 26x2042 | Provenance: Sammlung Medizinalrat Dr. Wilhelm Rösgen (1891–1956), Montabaur, 1932 direkt vom Künstler erworben, seitdem in Familienbesitz, Privatsammlung, Rheinland.

Estimation:160.000€

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