Adolf Maennchen

Adolf Maennchen (1860–1920)

Theodor Gustav Alwin Adolf Maennchen (born September 7, 1860 in Rudolstadt , † March 30, 1920 in Düsseldorf ) was a German genre and landscape painter .

Life

Adolf Maennchen was born in Rudolstadt, Thuringia, in 1860 as the son of master tanner Carl Maennchen and his wife Emilie, nee. Güntsche. After an apprenticeship as a decorative painter , he initially wandered in Germany and Austria from 1878 to 1883, interrupted by visits to the Dresden School of Applied Arts (1878–1879) and evening classes at the teaching institution of the Berlin Museum of Applied Arts (1880–1883). From the spring of 1883 he became a student at the Berlin Art Academy , which he attended until 1888. His teachers included Julius Ehrentraut , Paul Thumann , Otto Knille and Eugen Bracht . In addition to his studies, he continued to work as a decorative painter, the merit enabled him to go on a two-year study trip to Italy and North Africa.

Further study trips to Italy, Switzerland, the Netherlands and France followed later. Here he attended the Académie Julian in Paris to study under Jules-Joseph Lefebvre and Tony Robert-Fleury . From 1889 to 1893 he worked as a teacher at the Kunstgewerbeschule Halle (Saale) and from 1893 to 1901 at the trade school in Danzig . In 1902 Maennchen was appointed professor and head of a drawing class at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . He carried out this activity until 1918.

In 1896 he received the small gold medal and the honorary award of the city of Berlin at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition, and in 1900 a gold medal at the Paris World Exhibition . Adolf Maennchen died in Düsseldorf in 1920. The Berlin painter Albert Maennchen was his younger brother.

Works (selection)

Peace , 1892
Evening peace , 1895
Hour of Death , 1895
Stony Path , 1896
Stone-knocking women , 1897
In troubled times , 1897
Hänschen's birthday , 1898
In the church , 1901
The Day of Alms , 1903

literature

Male, Adolf . In: Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon . 6th edition. Volume 13, Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1908, p. 231 .
Maennchen, Adolf. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history. Volume 1/2, sheets 31–61: Heideck – Mayer, Louis. Ms. v. Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden 1895, pp. 928-929 ( archive.org ).
Maennchen, Adolf . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 23 : Leitenstorfer – Mander . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1929, p. 543 .

Web links

Commons : Adolf Männchen - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Personnel u. Atelier News: Düsseldorf. in: Art for everyone. Volume 17, 1902, p. 89 (digitized version of Heidelberg University)
↑ Illustration in: The art for everyone. Volume 17, 1902, p. 561 (digitized version of Heidelberg University)
↑ Illustration in: LeMO at the German Historical Museum
↑ Illustration in: Catalog of the Great Berlin Art Exhibition . 1897, p. 183 (digitized version of Heidelberg University)
↑ Illustration in: The art for everyone. Volume 16, 1900/1901, p. 541 (digitized version of Heidelberg University)

personal data
SURNAME	Maennchen, Adolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Maennchen, Theodor Gustav Alwin Adolf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German genre and landscape painter
DATE OF BIRTH	September 7, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH	Rudolstadt
DATE OF DEATH	March 30, 1920
Place of death	Dusseldorf

[1] Personnel u. Atelier News: Düsseldorf. in: Art for everyone. Volume 17, 1902, p. 89 (digitized version of Heidelberg University)

[2] Illustration in: The art for everyone. Volume 17, 1902, p. 561 (digitized version of Heidelberg University)

[3] Illustration in: LeMO at the German Historical Museum

[4] Illustration in: Catalog of the Great Berlin Art Exhibition . 1897, p. 183 (digitized version of Heidelberg University)

[5] Illustration in: The art for everyone. Volume 16, 1900/1901, p. 541 (digitized version of Heidelberg University)