Max Liebermann

Born in 1847 to a wealthy Jewish banking family in Berlin, Max Liebermann initially pursued chemistry as a pretext to study art, a path his father initially resisted. His early artistic education took him to Weimar, Paris, and the Netherlands, where he absorbed influences from French art and the Dutch masters, particularly Rembrandt. This exposure shaped his early style, evident in his first major painting, "Die Gänserupferinnen" (Goose Pluckers) from 1872, a realistic depic…