Under a high, grey-white cloudy sky, a dune landscape with meadows and pastures stretches out, divided into ochre, green and reddish-brown fields. Black and white spotted cows, a windmill and the church tower of noordwijk accentuate the wide flat land. From 1905 (until 1913) liebermann spent most of his summer weeks here, where the berlin gallery owner paul cassirer also had a holiday home. Scheveningen, where he had lived in previous years, had become too sophisticated for him. Dunes, beach and sea remained his preferred motifs even in the quieter noordwijk aan zee. Liebermann rarely created pure landscapes - but these, with their deep horizon line and impressive cloud spectacles, are often reminiscent of the model of jacob van ruisdael from the 17th century. In 1906, liebermann also captured the dunes of noordwijk with the distant city on the horizon in a large chalk drawing (staatliche kunsthalle karlsruhe). In the painting on wood, the moving sky takes up significantly more, over half of the picture, and it is also more carefully executed than the land below. It seems that the experience of clouds, light and space constituted the work. The painter friend erich hancke found these dune pictures to be "characteristic, similar and, although quite unromantic in feeling, magnificent like nature" (erich hancke, max liebermann, berlin 1914, p. 450). Object Type: painting. Genre: landscape painting. Date: 1906. Dimensions: height: 55.5 cm (21.8 in) ; width: 70 cm (27.5 in). Medium: oil on panel. Collection: Alte Nationalgalerie. Liebermann, Max - Landschaft bei Noordwijk - Alte Nationalgalerie
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