Heine, Heinrich. Der Rabbi von Bacherach

(LIEBERMANN, MAX)

Propyläen Verlag

Berlin

1923

ONE OF 400 NUMBERED COPIES. With 16 original lithographs. Frontispiece and colophon signed by Liebermann

Max Liebermann (1847-1935) was one of the most important figures in the world of German art from the turn of the twentieth century until his demise. Much of his life was spent in Holland, whose rather bleak paysage exerted a profound influence on his landscape paintings. Liebermann was also a portraitist; his subjects included philosopher Hermann Cohen, playright Georg Brandes, and politician Walter Rathenau. Very rarely did Liebermann focus on exclusively Jewish subjects. The lithographs he did for Heinrich Heine’s Rabbi of Bacherach are unique in this respect. See EJ, Vol. XI, cols. 223-4