Max Slevogt | Nini auf der Mauer (also: Bildnis einer Dame im Freien, Nini)

SLEVOGT, MAX
1868 Landshut - 1932 Neukastel

Title: Nini auf der Mauer (also: Bildnis einer Dame im Freien, Nini).
Date: 1899.
Technique: Oil on canvas.
Mounting: Laid down on wooden panel.
Measurement: 100 x 75cm.
Notation: Signed and dated lower left: Max Slevogt 99.
Frame/Pedestal: Framed.

The painting was restored at an earlier date. We thank Dr. Karoline Feulner, Landesmuseum Mainz, Max Slevogt Research Center, for her kind, scientific support.

Provenance:
- Estate of the artist (since then in the possession of the descendants)

Exhibitions:
- Berlin Secession, Berlin 1900
- Max Slevogt Galerie - Schloss Villa Ludwigshöhe, Mainz 2017/19 (permanent loan)

Literature:
- Exhib. cat. Zweite Kunstausstellung der Berliner Secession, Berlin 1900, no. 266 (here titled: Freilichtstudie)
- Müller, Georg (ed.): Max Slevogt - 96 Reproduktionen nach seinen Gemälden - Mit einem Vorwort von Karl Voll, Munich/Leipzig 1912, cat. no. 33, n. pag., ill. (here titled: Freilichtstudie)
- Wilhelm Hausenstein: Slevogt, in: Kunst und Künstler XVII, Berlin 1919, p. 9, ill.
- Emil Waldmann: Max Slevogt, Berlin 1923, p. 79, ill.
- Goering, M. (ed.): Max Slevogt - Sechzig Bilder, Königsberg 1941, n. pag., ill.
- Exhib.-Cat. Berlin, Place of Freedom for Art, National Gallery Berlin, 1960, no. 20
- Imiela, Hans-Jürgen: Max Slevogt - Eine Monographie, Karlsruhe 1968, cat. no. 20, p. 51, ill.

- Max Slevogt is, besides Lovis Corinth and Max Liebermann, the most important representative of German Late Impressionism
- Wonderful example of atmospheric plein air painting in light-flooded colours
- The painting has been in the artist's family since its creation and is now offered on the art market for the first time.