People

Adolph von Liebermann

Person · 13 November 1829 – 30 January 1893 · manufacturer, merchant, art collector · owner

Berlin manufacturer, merchant and art collector; the Nationalgalerie calls him a banker. He bought Adolph Menzel’s Eisenwalzwerk (Moderne Cyklopen) while it was being painted and sold it to the Nationalgalerie in 1875. He was the uncle of the painter Max Liebermann, the brother of Max Liebermann’s father Louis.