Guido from Maffei

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Guido von Maffei (born July 1, 1838 in Munich ; † December 28, 1922 there ) was a German painter.

Life

Guido von Maffei was the son of the estate and brickworks owner Karl Friedrich Ritter von Maffei (1809–1877) and Maria Sigismunde, née Fehr, a wholesaler daughter from Trieste (1814–1877). The grandfather, Pietro Paolo Maffei , came to Munich from Trento at the age of 16, had made a fortune as a wholesaler and tobacco manufacturer and was raised to the hereditary Bavarian nobility as Peter Paul von Maffei. Guido attended Munich's Maximiliansgymnasium , where he graduated from high school in 1858, with Wilhelm Marc , among others . He first studied law at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . His entry into the class of antiquities at the Munich Art Academy is documented on April 25, 1863 . From 1865 in the painting class of Carl Theodor von Piloty , he also specialized as an animal painter with Otto Gebler, a student of the same age . In 1873 he married his cousin Auguste von Alram (1851–1930) from Gorizia in Friuli, Austria, and settled in Munich's Maxvorstadt with an owner-occupied home and studio. From 1880 he stayed frequently in the Maffei villa planned by Georg Hauberisser on Gut Buchhof near Starnberg. His gravestone, on which the names of his wife and brother Paul (1852–1914) are, is preserved in the old northern cemetery on Arcisstrasse in Munich.

Guido von Maffei was a member and, from 1869, an exhibitor of the Munich Artists' Cooperative (MKG) in the royal glass palace and in 1892 he joined the Munich Association of Fine Arts " Secession ". He received several award medals and was appointed titular professor. He devoted himself almost exclusively to the representation of animals in the wild, which are inserted into forest and meadow landscapes, often also in battle among themselves or hunted by humans or their dogs. In addition to Munich, he also showed his work in exhibitions in Berlin, Bremen, Dresden, Hamburg and Vienna, among others. Many of his paintings appeared as wood engraving illustrations in popular magazines such as "Gartenlaube", "Meisterwerke in Originalholzschnitte" or "Velhagen und Klasings monthly books". During his lifetime for public collections, the pictures “Safe booty” from 1879 (Dresden, Galerie Neuer Meister) and “Wackere Fighters - Dachshunds make a badger” from 1882 (Munich, Neue Pinakothek) were purchased.

Works (selection)

  • Beim Fuchsriegeln , 1869: Catalog for the first international art exhibition in the Royal Glass Palace in Munich, 1869, No. 878.
  • Fuchs going out for robbery in the morning : Vienna, international art exhibition 1871.
  • Safe booty , 1879: Dresden State Art Collections, New Masters Gallery.
  • Brave fighters , Dachshunds put a badger on, 1882: Munich, Neue Pinakothek; Fig. In: Friedrich Pecht, History of Art in the 19th Century / Münchner Maler, Vol. 3 (1982).
  • The Boar Hunt , 1882/83: Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, GA, USA.
  • October evening , around 1898: Braunschweig Municipal Museum; Acquisition of the Braunschweiger Kunstverein at the 35th Braunschweiger Art Exhibition in 1898; Inv.no. 1200-0376-00.

Portrait

  • Theodor Hilsdorf : Guido von Maffei , photography: Munich, City Museum, portrait collection, inv.no. G 28/1451 ( illustration ).
  • Armin Jacobi (* 1844): Guido von Maffei in his studio in Munich , wood engraving based on an original drawing, in: Der Waidmann, Blätter für Häger und Jagdfreunde. First Illustrirte Deutsche Jagdzeitung . Official organ of the "General German Hunting Protection Association". Edited by R. von Schmiedeberg. Paul Wolff, Leipzig 1882.

Autographs

  • Guido von Maffei: Letter to Konrad Dreher: Münchner Stadtbibliothek Monacensia; s. Kalliope union catalog (online).

literature

  • Friedrich Pecht: From the Munich Glass Palace. Studies for orientation. Annual exhibition in the Glaspalast, Munich 1876, p. 243.
  • Maffei, Guido von. 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, p. 915 ( archive.org ).
  • Intellectual Germany at the end of the 19th century. Encyclopedia of German intellectual life in biographical sketches. Volume 1: The visual artists. CGRöder, Leipzig / Berlin 1898.
  • Maffei, Guido von . 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.
  • Bruckmann's Lexicon of Munich Art. Munich painter in the 19th century. Volume 3, Munich 1982 (Fig.).
  • Siegfried Weiß : Art career aspiration. Painter, graphic artist, sculptor. Former students of the Munich Maximiliansgymnasium from 1849 to 1918. Allitera Verlag, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-86906-475-8 , pp. 69–73 (Fig.).

Web links

Commons : Guido von Maffei  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Annual report on the K. Maximilians-Gymnasium in Munich for the school year 1857/58.
  2. ^ Official directory of the staff, teachers, civil servants and students of the royal Bavarian Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. Winter semester 1861/62. Munich, Georg Weiss 1861: Maffei, Guido von, Munich, Arcisstr. 14; Jurisprudence.
  3. ↑ Entry in the matriculation book .
  4. ↑ Arkaden-2 (west entrance)
personal data
SURNAME Maffei, Guido von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Maffei, Guido Ritter and Edler von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH July 1, 1838
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH December 28, 1922
Place of death Munich