German Impressionist Landscape Painting: Liebermann-Corinth-Slevogt November 11–December 5, 2010

Max Liebermann, German, 1847-1935
Country House in Hilversum—Villa in Hilversum
1901
Oil on canvas
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie, Inv. No. 1247
Lovis Corinth, German, 1858-1925
Inn Valley Landscape
1910
Oil on canvas
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie, Inv. No. 263, NG 1263
Max Liebermann, German, 1847-1935
Terrace in the Garden near the Wannsee towards Northwest
1916
Oil on canvas
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, museum purchase with funds provided by the Audrey Jones Beck Endowment Fund, 2009.549
Lovis Corinth, German, 1858-1925
The Painter Leistikow
1900
Oil on canvas
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie, Inv. No. B 84
Max Liebermann, German, 1847-1935
Garden Restaurant on the Havel—Nikolskoe
1916
Oil on canvas
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie, Inv. No. NG 4/94
Lovis Corinth, German, 1858-1925
Walchensee with Larch
1921
Oil on canvas
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie, Inv. No. A II 366; NG 1381
Lovis Corinth, German, 1858-1925
Terrace in Klobenstein, Tyrol
1910
Oil on canvas
Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany (HK-2766)
Max Liebermann, German, 1847-1935
Restaurant Garden—Beer Garden in Leiden or In den Zelten
1900
Oil on canvas
Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany, donated by the Körber-Stiftung, Hamburg, 2002
Impressionism is considered a fundamentally French artistic movement, but the international reputation of Paris as the world´s leading art center inevitably led to the dissemination of this style to other countries. Art students from all over Europe flocked to Paris to be trained at the Académie des Beaux-Arts or one of the many private studios. Despite the strained political relationship between Germany and France at the time, German interest in French artistic developments was particularly lively.
German Impressionist Landscape Painting features more than 90 paintings by the remarkable artists Max Liebermann, Lovis Corinth, and Max Slevogt.
Liebermann (1847—1935), who has been called "the German Manet," lived in Paris from 1873 to 1878 and subsequently became the leader of a generation of German painters, including Corinth (1858–1925) and Slevogt (1868–1932), who were inspired by the works of their colleagues based in France, such as Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, Vincent van Gogh, Édouard Manet, Claude Monet, and Auguste Renoir.
Liebermann, Corinth, and Slevogt were celebrated as the "triumvirate of German Impressionism." Although none of the three was exclusively a landscape artist, their landscapes present an opportunity to trace the development of a particular kind of German Impressionism through works of the highest quality.
Organized by the MFAH and the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud in Cologne, Germany, German Impressionist Landscape Painting is the first major exhibition in the United States devoted to this subject in 30 years. The concurrent exhibition Drawing from Nature: Landscapes by Liebermann, Corinth, and Slevogt, on view exclusively at the MFAH, presents works on paper by the three artists.
This exhibition is organized by the MFAH and the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud, Cologne.
Generous funding is provided by:
Linda K. Finger