Anton Marxmüller

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Anton Marxmüller (born February 18, 1898 in Munich ; † September 25, 1984 ibid) was a German painter , draftsman and graphic artist .

life and work

Anton Marxmüller was born in Munich in 1898 as the third of ten children. He was interested in drawing and painting from an early age, and later in high school also in the great artists and their techniques.

Anton Marxmüller at the presentation of a book about Jakob Roider with illustrations by Josef Oberberger in Freising 1980, photo by Hans Bernhard

From 1918 to 1922 he studied art education at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Professors Maximilian Dasio and Max Doerner, among others, and successfully passed the state examination in 1923. He was accepted into the Association for Original Etching in 1922 and exhibited his etchings in its rooms. The Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München and the Städtische Galerie München bought works from him. He worked as a freelance artist in the classic genres of landscape, still life, portrait and nude painting, made reverse glass pictures and painted tiles. In 1930 he was employed by the Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments and after three years appointed curator of Lower Bavaria and the Upper Palatinate. In this role he planned and supervised the conservation and color design of ecclesiastical and secular buildings.

In 1931 he married his colleague from the academy Irmgard Keller; their son Johann Anton Marxmüller was born in 1933. In 1940, Anton Marxmüller was given the teaching assignment for the etching workshop of the Academy of Applied Arts in Munich and in 1946 he participated in the re-establishment of the Association for Original Etching. Many study trips took him to Austria, the Netherlands, France, Spain, Italy, Elba, Yugoslavia and Greece. In 1959 he was promoted to full professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich under President Josef Henselmann as the head of the teaching class and retired in 1966, but continued to devote himself to painting. In 1984 he died in Gauting near Munich.

Portrait drawing of the painter by Ingeborg Bernhard 1980 with a handwritten note by the artist

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Anton MXM. Retrieved May 13, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Marxmüller, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, draftsman and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH September 25, 1984
Place of death Munich