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Artist Max Slevogt and Berlin publisher Bruno Cassirer exchanged letters regularly over many years. The surviving correspondence, comprising around 350 documents, not only reflects their long-standing business friendship and the changes in Slevogt’s artistic approach. The letters and postcards also offer many insights into the art trade of the time, the two correspondents’ network, and the political events of the late German Empire and the Weimar Republic. The letters and postcards surviving in the artist’s written estate are now being published for the first time, including 53 letters from Slevogt with his characteristic humorous marginal drawings, in a scientifically catalogued and annotated edition – a milestone for the study of classical modernism in Germany.

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• First publication of the correspondence between Max Slevogt and Bruno Cassirer, comprising approx. 350 written documents
• Including a comprehensive index of persons
• Current findings of joint cooperative research onMax Slevogt: Landesmuseum Mainz, GDKE; Saarlandmuseum Saarbrücken, Moderne Galerie, and Landesbibliothek Speyer, Landesbibliothekszentrum Rheinland-Pfalz
• Exhibitions: Landesmuseum Mainz, 27.11.2025 to 8.3.2026; Moderne Galerie, Saarlandmuseum Saarbrücken, 27.3.2026 to 5.7.2026; Liebermann-Villa am Wannsee, Berlin, 3.10.2026 to 18.1.2027
• Podcast: A conversation with Curator Karoline Feulner on Kunst Museum Konversation