Two Riders on the Beach (c.1901–1903) — Max Liebermann

Oil on canvas by Max Liebermann, c.1901–1903. Characteristic North Sea or Baltic beach scene with riders on horseback, typical of Liebermann's Wannsee period. Liebermann (1847–1935) was the founding president of the Berlin Secession and Germany's leading Impressionist. Following his death in 1935, his widow Martha Liebermann (1857–1943) was forced to sell works under duress before her deportation and suicide. Multiple Liebermann works were also confiscated from German public museum collections as 'degenerate art' under the 1937 Entartete Kunst campaign. This node represents the pattern of Liebermann works with forced-sale or seizure provenance gaps.