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Who didn’t get the ‘No Top Hats’ memo?
Berlin Secession exhibition, 1906. I guess Lovis Corinth didn’t get that memo?
Jury for the Berlin Secession 1908 exhibition. From the left: sculptors Fritz Klimsch and August Gaul, painters Walter Leistikow and Hans Baluschek, art dealer Paul Cassirer, painters Max Slevogt (sitting) and George Mosson (standing), sculptor Max Kruse, painters Max Liebermann (sitting), Emil Rudolf Weiß and Lovis Corinth.
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Self portrait as a hunter
Love the humour in this self portrait, Max Slevogt’s portraits do come over as a bit pompous but pretty sure this one from 1907 ‘Selbstbildnis als Jäger’ was a tongue in cheek one.
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Max is resting
Unusually informal photo of Max Slevogt smoking a cigar in the garden of Neukastel, around 1925. Methinks unplanned hence the angry expression.
Like Matisse, a cat lover, there are other photos with his cat! -
Max Slevogt working
Max Slevogt working. Looks like he’s etching?
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Max Slevogt in the garden
If you said there was something very Cezanne or Manet about this painting, you’d be correct at least in the latter case, he was influenced by Manet.
Max Slevogt, Self-Portrait in the garden at Godramstein, 1910. More info here.
In later life his style became much more loose, more stucco. Like my favourite print of his:
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Max Slevogt bowler self-portrait
Returning more to the blog’s main theme, here’s a self-portrait from German impressionist painter Max Slevogt, 1913 ‘Selbstbildnis Mit Schwarzem Hut’ which roughly translated is ‘Self-portrait with black hat’ – of course a bowler.
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A dapper Matisse drawing a Kouros (a greek male youth) in the Louvre, 1932. Note no stools, no massive drawing pad or equipment, just a small pad and pencil (people who clog up the National Gallery or Tate trying to create their masterpieces please take note). Credit unknown.
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Matisse at work on an illustration for his book, Ulysses, 1953. No credit either and this is from the (official?) Henri Matisse site….I do look for credits for ALL images, as a photographer it pisses me off when things of mine are reposted without credit. But even with Google Image search you can call a blank quite often.
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Love the coat! Matisse arriving in America on the S. S. Mauretania, December 15, 1930. Can’t find a credit for this one.
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Although he was famously grumpy-looking in early photos, it seems introduce his cats Minouche, Le Puce or Coussi and he becomes like a teddy bear…aww. Seems later in life he seemed to smile a lot more in photos. One of these is by Robert Capa – on the bed – can’t find credits for the others. Circa late 1940′s?
