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Max Slevogt (Landshut, October 8, 1868 - Leinsweiler, September 20, 1932) was a German Impressionist painter. A trip to Egypt in 1914 resulted in 21 paintings as well as numerous watercolours and drawings; on the return journey he stopped off in Italy. After the outbreak of World War I he was sent as official war painter to the western front. The war experience brought about a search for new style appropriate to the expression of the horrors of war. In the same year he became a member of the royal academy of the arts in Berlin.
[Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf - Oil on canvas, 163 x 130.5 cm]