LIEBER, Max (1851-1918) - Landscape; ca. 1900. oil on canvas 51x70.5 cm, signed with bound monogram l. d.: ML.
Painter and printmaker born in Kolobrzeg, originally trained in chemistry, around 1890 he was sent as an apprentice to the Academy in Karlsruhe, where he apprenticed in the studios of Julius Bergmann and Friedrich Kallmorgen. Max Lieber remained in the city for his art studies, serving there, among other positions, as president of the local Artists' Association (Karlsruher Künstlerbundes) and conservator of the Baden Art Association (Badischer Kunstvereins). See Thieme / Becker - Allgemeine Lexikon der bildenden Künstler. Cf. the offered painting with the work "Landscape from the Black Forest" in the Augustinermuseum in Freiburg.
