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Portrait of Theodor Fontane

Max Liebermann1896

Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Berlin, Germany

Having in 1896 published an essay on the work of Edgar Degas in Pan magazine, Max Liebermann went on later that year to create a portrait for the same publication, depicting the poet and author Theodor Fontane. Fontane’s poems were also featured in Pan, which was produced by his son’s publishing company in Berlin. Liebermann was nearly 50 when he created the portrait, his subject some 25 years his senior. This bust portrait gives a frontal view of Fontane, who maintains a very upright posture and a rather severe, official pose – doubtless felt by the artist to be most appropriate for the purposes of the portrait.

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  • Title: Portrait of Theodor Fontane
  • Creator: Max Liebermann
  • Date: 1896
  • Physical Dimensions: w31.4 x h38.6 cm
  • Type: Drawing
  • Medium: Black chalk, heightened with white, light brown paper
  • Inv.-No.: SZ Liebermann 27
  • ISIL no.: DE-MUS-018511
  • External Link: Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
  • Copyright: Photo © bpk - Photo Agency / Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz / Jörg P. Anders │ Text © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz / Marie Ursula Riemann-Reyher
  • Collection: Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz
  • Artist Gender: Male
  • Artist Dates: 20.07.1847 - 08.02.1935
Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

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