Wohlauf, kameraden - Farewell Comrades - Extrablatt - Special Edition

Depicts a German soldier who is about to mount his horse, and in the left background is a column of german soldiers holding flags. On the verso is the cover for the pro-war journal "Kriegszeit" with a lithograph by Max Liebermann 'Extrablatt', depicting a man in a cap selling leaves of "Kriegszeit". Behind him is a crowd of people. Max Liebermann (1847-1935) was a German-Jewish painter and printmaker, and one of the leading proponents of Impressionism in Germany. He began capturing his immediate environment on paper at the age of nine. Max Liebermann studied in Weimar for three years until 1872He spent the years 1873 to 1878 in Paris and the artist colony of Barbizon. Here he studied the art of Millet, whose paintings of farm workers had a strong influence on him. A first sojourn in Holland in 1871 was followed by regular trips to the Netherlands, where he discovered suitable motifs for his most important works. His striving to elevate the life and work of the simple man to the realms of art in an unpretentious simplicity was not generally accepted. Liebermann continually fought for acceptance. Only after turning towards motifs and scenes of bourgeois life did he become the celebrated and sought after painter of the liberal bourgeoisie of the turn of the century. He spent the years 1878 to 1884 in Munich and then returned to his native town Berlin in 1884. Max Liebermann was an important personality not only as an artist but also as an art politician. At the beginning of 1892 he was a member of the "Erste Sezession Deutschland", an organisation which he chaired in Berlin from 1898 to 1911. His home town honoured Liebermann by appointing him professor at the "Königliche Akademie der Künste". Later, from 1920 to 1932, he was the president of the "Preußische Akademie der Künste".