Max Liebermann (1847-1935, German) Signed etching. Image Size: 6.5 x 9 in. Unframed. Liebermann studied in Weimar until 1872, and after a trip to Düsseldorf in 1871, where he met Hungarian painter Mihály Munkácsy, he painted his first large painting "Die Gänserupferinnen", a work very much inspired by Munkácsy's Realism. Liebermann went on to study and live in France from 1873 to 1878, in Paris and the Barbizon artist colony. He also took frequent trips to the Netherlands beginning in 1871, and the biggest influences on his work were Jean Millet, Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, and the Dutch painter Frans Hals. He was appointed a professor at the Royal Academy of Art in Berlin, and served as President of the Prussian Academy for the Arts from 1920 to 1932.