''The Garden of the Orphanage in Amsterdam'' is a 1894
painting by German painter
Max Liebermann
Max Liebermann (20 July 1847 – 8 February 1935) was a German painter and printmaker, and one of the leading proponents of Impressionism in Germany and continental Europe. In addition to his activity as an artist, he also assembled an important ...
, a figure of
Realism
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In the arts
*Realism (arts), the general attempt to depict subjects truthfully in different forms of the arts
Arts movements related to realism include:
*Classical Realism
*Literary realism, a move ...
,
Impressionism, and
Post-Impressionism. It is now in the
Musée d'Art moderne et contemporain of
Strasbourg
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,
France. Its inventory number is 55.974.0.680.
The painting was bought by the museum's director,
Wilhelm von Bode, in the very year of its completion. It is the last in a series of works depicting scenes from the Amsterdam orphanage, begun in 1876 with a series of drawings ''in situ'' and culminating in several oil paintings, the largest of which are now in the
Städel Museum of
Frankfurt (1882), the
Kunsthalle
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In the German-speaking regions of Europe, ''Kunsthallen'' are often operated by ...
of
Hamburg (1885), and the Strasbourg museum.
References
External links
''Le Jardin de l’orphelinat de la ville d’Amsterdam''on the museum's website
Paintings by Max Liebermann
Paintings in the collection of the Strasbourg Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art
1894 paintings
Oil on canvas paintings
Orphanages in Europe
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