Avant-garde: Max Liebermann and Impressionism in Germany, Museum Barberini, Potsdam, Germany
28 February to 7 June 2026

Located in the German city of Potsdam, the Museum Barberini boasts a superb collection of works by French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painters — the likes of Claude Monet, Berthe Morisot and Paul Signac. This makes it an apt venue to host an exhibition devoted to Max Liebermann, one of the principal champions of Impressionism in Germany around the turn of the 20th century. Born into a Jewish family in Berlin in 1847, the artist spent much of the 1870s living in Paris, and returned to his home city in 1884.

The exhibition will feature more than 100 paintings — a number by Liebermann himself, and the majority by other German artists associated with Impressionism, such as Lovis Corinth, Dora Hitz, Gotthardt Kuehl, Maria Slavona, Max Slevogt and Fritz von Uhde. The Barberini will be this show’s second venue, after its transfer from the Museum Frieder Burda in Baden-Baden.