Max Slevogt (1868–1932) was a leading figure of German Impressionism, celebrated for a brisk, light-filled style that brought modern immediacy to portraiture, landscape, and theatrical subjects. Born in Landshut and trained in Munich, he sharpened his outlook through study trips and exposure to the French avant-garde in Paris, including time at Académie Julian. By the turn of the century he had become part of the influential circle reshaping German art, exhibiting with the Berlin Secession and helping define a more liberated, painterly alternative to academic convention. Slevogt’s work is often marked by confident, energetic brushwork and a fascination with the effects of atmosphere and motion—qualities that suited both open-air painting and his engagement with opera and stage culture. Travel also expanded his palette and motifs, notably a journey to Egypt that intensified his interest in heat, glare, and saturated color. In later years he worked frequently from his estate in the Palatinate, leaving a legacy that helped position modern German painting within a broader European conversation.