Ernst von Maydell

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Ernst von Maydell (born January 4, 1888 in Vogelsang in Estonia , † December 25, 1960 in Grafing near Munich ) was a German-Baltic painter.

Life

Ernst von Maydell was a student of Wilhelm Purvit at the art school in Riga and a student at the Debschitz school in Munich . From 1921 to 1925 he worked as a painter in Berchtesgaden , from 1925 to 1928 in southern Italy and then worked again (at least until 1930) in Munich. In 1940 he was represented at the Great German Art Exhibition . He worked temporarily in the United States, where he was exhibited in 1931 at the Corcoran Gallery of Art , 1950 at the Delaware Art Museum and 1951 at the Wadsworth Atheneum . He later lived in Grafing near Munich and was honored with an exhibition in the Lenbachhaus in 1960 . Some of his brush drawings and watercolors have a "delicate, precious character".

literature

  • Leo von Kügelgen : Maydell, Ernst Freih. from . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 24 : Mandere – Möhl . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1930, p. 293 .
  • Maydell, Ernst Freih. from . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 357 .
  • Maydell, Ernst Freih. from . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 6 , supplements H-Z . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1962, p. 259 .
  • Ernst Maria Fischer, Fritz Hoffmann, Ernst von Maydell: Exhibition. September 1960 [catalog], Städtische Galerie, Lenbachpalais, 1960.
  • Kuno Hagen: Lexicon of German Baltic Artists. 20th century. Verlag Wissenschaft und Politik, Cologne 1983. ISBN 3-8046-0101-4 . P. 92.

Web links

Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Ernst von Maydell. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Leo von Kügelgen : Maydell, Ernst Freih. from . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 24 : Mandere – Möhl . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1930, p. 293 .
personal data
SURNAME Maydell, Ernst von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Baltic painter
DATE OF BIRTH January 4, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Vogelsang , Estonia
DATE OF DEATH December 25, 1960
Place of death Grafing near Munich