Liebermann Villa at Wannsee

The Liebermann Villa is a privately run museum since 2006 in the former summer residence of the German-Jewish painter Max Liebermann. The house and the garden tell about the life story of the famous Berlin artist.

Around the house is a garden designed by Max Liebermann. Since the Liebermann family lost the property due to the expropriation of the Nazis in 1940, the garden was changed. Today it is reconstructed according to paintings by Max Liebermann. The garden consists of an extensive green area on the Wannsee and a front garden, which is separated from the rest of the garden by the villa. The front garden is in turn divided into an ornamental garden and a vegetable garden, the planting of which corresponds to Liebermann's ideas. At the end of the front garden there is a white bench, which the artist called his favorite place. From here there is a beautiful view of the whole front garden to the house and even through the windows of the villa to the Wannsee. Conspicuous in the back garden are the so-called birch path, the tea house and the three smaller gardens enclosed with hedges.
On the first floor of the house are today a café with an invitingly designed terrace as well as the loggia, where a mural created by Liebermann in 1911 can be seen. The upper floor, which housed the artist's studio, still recognizable today, offers space for exhibitions.

Max Liebermann (born 20.07.1847 in Berlin; died 08.02.1935 ibid) was one of the most influential representatives of German Impressionism. He was of Jewish origin, founder of the Berlin Secession and president of the Academy of Arts. He resigned from both posts after the National Socialists seized power in 1933. His daughter fled to the USA, his wife Marta committed suicide before her deportation in 1943. He himself died of natural causes as early as 1935.