Country House in Hilversum

Country House in Hilversum is an oil on canvas painting by the German painter Max Liebermann, from 1901.

The current painting marks Liebermann's turn to depictions of the upper-middle-class milieu, after he had previously shown everyday scenes of working people.

The painting Country House in Hilversum shows a motif that Liebermann knew from the Dutch province of North Holland.

A striking design element of the facade is the kind of attic in the middle, in which a round tower clock is set.

[2] In front of the cuboid house there is a large, round rose bed with green foliage and some red flowers.

A striking feature, however, is the mighty tree that dominates the foreground on the right side of the painting and contrasts with the white façade of the house.

Its thick, dark trunk is trimmed from the upper edge of the painting and only part of the treetop that protrudes behind it appears in the it.