Ferdinand Macketanz

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Ferdinand Macketanz (born November 30, 1902 in Wiesenfeld near Posen , † June 28, 1970 in Laas ) was a German landscape , still life and portrait painter and art professor in Düsseldorf .

Life

After moving to the Rhineland , Macketanz studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . From 1926 to 1931 he was a master student at Heinrich Campendonk and the artist group included The Young Rheinland to.

His representational motifs, influenced by the New Objectivity , consist primarily of landscapes, still lifes and portraits. On numerous study trips to southern countries, strongly colored, Mediterranean worlds of memory were created.

"I am constantly vacillating between the wish to put cool and impersonal colors and shapes - if you will: non-representational - next to each other and the wish to paint romantic pictures that do not deny the feeling."

In 1942, after his studio in Düsseldorf was destroyed, he and his South Tyrolean wife Marianne moved to Lake Constance , where artists who resisted the National Socialist conception of art had settled on the Höri peninsula . Macketanz lived and worked in the hamlet of Kattenhorn, which belongs to Öhningen , at times in 1960.

In 1951 Macketanz was appointed professor of painting at the Düsseldorf Academy. On June 5, 1961, he accepted the painter Gerhard Richter, who later became world-famous, into his class shortly after he entered the academy. After his retirement he moved from Düsseldorf to Laas in South Tyrol.

Ferdinand Macketanz was a member of the German Association of Artists .

Exhibitions

literature

  • Leopold Zahn : Artists on the Höri on Lake Constance: Max Ackermann, Curth Georg Becker, Otto Dix, Erich Heckel, Walter Herzger, Hans Kindermann, Helmuth Macke, Ferdinand Macketanz, Alexander Rath, Jean Paul Schmitz, R. Schnorrenberg , Simon and Koch, Constance 1956
  • Siegfried Gohr , Vanessa Sondermann: Academy Gallery: The New Collection 2005–2009 , State Art Academy Düsseldorf, 2009

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Macketanz on Südwestdeutsche-Kunststiftung ( Memento from June 17, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Ordinary members of the German Association of Artists since it was founded in 1903 / Macketanz, Ferdinand ( memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed November 8, 2015)
personal data
SURNAME Macketanz, Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape, still life and portrait painter
DATE OF BIRTH November 30, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiesenfeld near Poznan
DATE OF DEATH June 28, 1970
Place of death Lasa