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German Impressionism, June 8-July 7, 1957

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Scope and Contents

Arranged by the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, an exhibition of surveying Impressionism in Germany through prints by German artists Max Liebermann, Lovis Corinth, Max Slevogt, Ernst Oppler, Paul Paeschke, and Hans Meid, from the Achenbach collection, with loans from the San Francisco Museum of Art and Mills College Art Gallery in Oakland.
The exhibition records span five folders and include a press release, didactic information, receipt, correspondence, plus installation photographs, and an additional two folders of material related to the circulation of the exhibition.

Dates

  • Creation: June 8-July 7, 1957

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

At this time, the exhibition records are unavailable to the public and will only be made available to FAMSF staff upon request.

Biographical / Historical

Generally, the Impressionist style is synonymous with France: with artists like Édouard Manet, Claude Monet or Auguste Renoir, with quaint, bright and colorful works often depicting outdoor scenes, or for serial examinations of haystacks, church façades and lily ponds, captured in the play of varying light moods at different times of the day or year. In Germany, the well-known triumvirate of Lovis Corinth, Max Liebermann and Max Slevogt, so named even during their lifetime, are counted among the Impressionists. Even contemporary art scholars of the movement had regarded it at least as a European phenomenon. While Impressionism lost significance in France, the country of its birth, at the latest with the onset of the First World War, in Germany Impressionist tendencies, especially in the context of art academies, lasted well into the 1920s.

Source: https://www.hamburger-kunsthalle.de/en/exhibitions/impressionism-0#:~:text=In%20Germany%2C%20the%20well%2Dknown,least%20as%20a%20European%20phenomenon.

Extent

0.1 Linear Feet (The exhibition records span five folders plus photographs.)

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Abstract

Arranged by the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, an exhibition of surveying Impressionism in Germany through prints by German artists, from the Achenbach collection, with loans from the San Francisco Museum of Art and Mills College Art Gallery in Oakland. The exhibition records span five folders plus photographs.

Related Exhibitions

A list of all Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts exhibitions is available in the Archives.
Legion of Honor: German Prints (1930)
Legion of Honor: Etchings, Lithographs, and Wood Engravings by German Artists (1930)
de Young: Modern German Graphic Arts (1932)
Legion of Honor: Paintings by Lovis Corinth (1858-1925) (1938)
de Young: Retrospective Exhibition of the Work of Max Beckmann (1948)
de Young: Paintings by Max Beckmann (1950)
de Young: Oils, Watercolors, Drawings, Etchings, and Lithographs by Lovis Corinth (1952)
de Young: A Mid-Century Review of German Watercolors, Drawings, and Prints from 1905-1955 (1956)
de Young: Contemporary German Prints (1957)
Legion of Honor: German Impressionism (1957)
Legion of Honor: Prints by German Expressionists (1958)
de Young: German Expressionist Paintings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Morton D. May (1961)
de Young: Prints and Drawings by Lovis Corinth (1971)
Legion of Honor: Expressionism and Modern German Painting from the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection (1990)
Legion of Honor: The Expressionist Era in Germany, 1900-1933: Prints and Drawings from the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts (1990)

Separated Materials

Installation photograph prints and negatives are housed in the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts Exhibition Photograph collection in box 1.
Materials related to the circulation of the exhibition are stored within the AFGA Circulating Exhibition Records box 3.

Subject

Repository Details

Part of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Archives Repository

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