Max Wulff

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Cover for the magazine Jugend (1896)
Monogram on the frontispiece to Elisabeth Bauck's story Klein Evchen , around 1910

Max Wulff (born December 15, 1871 in Berlin , † 1947 ) was a German painter , graphic artist and illustrator .

Life

Max Wulff studied at the University of the Arts in Berlin and at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

He illustrated numerous fairy tale , children's and youth books , including the works of authors such as Karl May , James Fenimore Cooper , Frederick Marryat , Jules Verne , Sophie Wörishöffer , Ottilie Wildermuth , Marie von Felseneck , Else Ury and Johanna Spyri . In particular, he worked for the publishing houses A. Weichert and Meidinger in Berlin.

Wulff also made an oil portrait of the aged Arthur Schopenhauer based on a photograph by Johann Schäfer from 1859.

Works (selection)

Illustrations

  • Elisabeth Bauck : Klein Evchen , Berlin: A. Weichert Verlag, circa 1910 (book cover and four full-page, colored illustrations in front of and in the text)

literature

  • Yearbook of Fine Arts , Berlin: Fischer & Franke, 1902, directory III, column 242
  • Black-and-white. A book of the drawing arts. Ed .: Association of German Illustrators, Berlin: Fischer & Franke, 1903, p. 35 (illustration)
  • Willy Oskar Dreßler : Dressler's art manual , Vol. II: Fine arts , Berlin: Wasmuth, 1921
  • Catalog of the Great Berlin Art Exhibition (= publications of the art archive ) Berlin, 1904 and 1914

Web links

Commons : Max Wulff  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Works by and about Max Wulff  in the German Digital Library

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Hans Vollmer : Wulff, Max , in: Thieme-Becker (1999), vol. 36, p. 302
  2. ↑ Compare the information given in the GND number of the German National Library
  3. ↑ Regina Freyberger: Märchenbilder - Bildermärchen: Illustrations for Grimm's fairy tales, 1819-1945: about a forgotten area of ​​German art , plus Diss. Univ. Munich 2008, Athena-Verlag, Oberhausen 2009, ISBN 9783898963503 , p. 667
  4. ↑ Wolfgang Hermesmeier, Stefan Schmatz (eds.): Traumwelten: Pictures for the work of Karl May. Vol. 2: Illustrators and their work from 1913 to 1930. Special volume on the collected works of Karl May, Karl-May-Verlag, Bamberg 2007, ISBN 978-3-7802-0167-6 , p. 282
  5. ↑ a b Christine and Detlef Heinsohn: Illustrations by Max Wulff (with images) on the detlef-heinsohn.de page , accessed on March 15, 2015
  6. ↑ Arthur Hübscher : Schopenhauer portraits: an iconography. Kramer, Frankfurt a. M. 1968, pp. 153, 156
personal data
SURNAME Wulff, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wulff, M.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH December 15, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 1947