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Identifier: menaroundkaiserm00wilerich (find matches)
Title: Men around the Kaiser; the makers of modern Germany
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Wile, Frederic William, 1873-1941
Subjects: William II, German Emperor, 1859-1941 Germany -- Biography Germany -- Politics and government 1888-1918 Germany -- Intellectual life
Publisher: Philadelphia, Lippincott
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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erfeits of the Emperor and EmpressFrederick glittering at the entrance to the sylvanTiergarten across the way. If you have artistictears to shed, Liebermann will bid you prepareto shed them now ; and then he will assure youthat the Kaiser, by planting such art where itmust offend a painters gaze every time he seekssun, light and air, which are Liebermanns Gods,has wreaked revenge for the sins of Secessionistsfor all time. All I can do, says Liebermann,is to wear blue goggles ; but it is a life-sen-tence. An arrival in Berlin in the benighted first years ofthe new century was taught to regard the Secession,then in the heyday of militant leadership underLiebermann, as something hardly mentionable inpolite artistic society. One went to the annualexhibition in Kurfiirstendamm as to a Museum ofMisapplied Arts, and talked of Secessionists interms nowadays reserved for Cubists, Futuristsand Post-Impressionists. Of the Liebermannitesof 1901 and 1902 people sang as the music-hall168 J • 5 »
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^ //i^fUy^L^^^^ MAX LIEBERMANN comedians of New York satirised the new art **recently exhibited there : I beheld a pile of brickbats underneath a cellar stair,Which was labelled Spanish dancer with the limelight on her hair.I remarked a slab of limestone on a dingy rubbish heap,And was told it was the portrait of * An Indian child asleep.Seven lengths of cedar scantlings were My Ladys Easter hat.I dont hanker for the future if its going to be like that. As far as Liebermann was concerned, the futureof the Secession was not to be Hke that/ WithLeistikow, Ury, Slevogt, Corinth and the othertoreadors who raUied round his standard in the earlydays, he was doomed to be excoriated as conservativeto the point of reaction by the rising generation ofhotspurs. To-day Liebermann is looked upon asold-fogeyish by Secessionists, because he refusesto identify himself with their extravaganzas. Hefound the movement getting out of hand severalyears ago, and laid down the presidency of theBerlin Secessi

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