Art & Science

The Barberini Studio regularly hosts exciting art talks on current topics related to art in the museum:

Fri, May 8, 5:30 p.m.
Max Liebermann and his garden paradise on Lake Wannsee
Gesine Harms, art historian

‘My little castle on the lake’ is what the famous Berlin painter and German impressionist Max Liebermann called his summer villa on Lake Wannsee, which he had built in 1909 and whose park-like garden he helped design. An idyllic oasis right on the waterfront, an impressive triad of art, architecture and nature had been created. The fact that this refuge can be experienced today as it was a hundred years ago borders on a miracle, considering the fate of Martha and Max Liebermann and the history of their summer house, which is full of happiness, but also tragedy and absurdities. 

Gesine Harms is an art historian and has been working as an art educator at the Kunsthalle Bremen for over 20 years. She was also involved in transforming the Liebermann Villa on Lake Wannsee into a memorial and museum.

Thu, May 28, 5:30 p.m.
Max Liebermann. From leisure activity to modern sport
Gesine Harms, art historian

From 1900 onwards, the painter Max Liebermann focused intensively on the leisure activities of the Wilhelmine upper middle class. In addition to numerous beach, bathing and sailing scenes, he mainly painted horse riders, polo players and tennis players, and with these motifs he was one of the first artists ever to address sport as a phenomenon of modern life.
The lecture shows how Liebermann gradually moved away from his preferred subjects of the harsh world of work and life in favour of new motifs of a bourgeois and tourist-oriented sports scene and landscapes as places of recreation and sporting activity.

Fri, June 5, 5:30 p.m.
Liebermann's network​
Isabelle Runde, art historian

Max Liebermann was not only an innovator in art himself, but also an influential player in the cultural politics of his time. Supported by an international network of fellow artists, gallery owners, collectors and museum directors that he had built up over the course of his life, he played a decisive role in shaping the institutional framework of modern art in Germany as co-founder of the Berlin Secession and president of the Academy of Arts.
The lecture highlights key figures in this network and shows how their collaboration enabled a lasting rethinking within the art world.

Isabelle Runde is an art historian and works as an art educator in Berlin and Potsdam, including at the Liebermann Villa on Lake Wannsee and the Berlinische Galerie.

Duration
60 minutes

Costs
€ 10
The ticket allows you to visit the museum one hour before the start of the event.

Meeting point:
Foyer

Location
Barberini Studio, Humboldtstr. 4, 14467 Potsdam; next to the museum