Hiasl Maier-Erding

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Hiasl Maier-Erding: House on the Lakeshore (1917)
Hiasl Maier-Erding: Girl in Blue Costume (1933)
Hiasl Maier-Erding: Father Johannes (around 1925)

Hiasl Maier-Erding (actually Matthias Maier , born May 5, 1894 in Erding , † April 30, 1933 in Munich ) was a German painter. He became known as a Chiemsee painter and portraitist.

Career

Maier began an apprenticeship as a decorative painter in Prien am Chiemsee in 1907 with master painter Schöberl . From 1911 he attended the School of Applied Arts and from 1912 the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. The Duke of Mecklenburg financed a study trip to large German museums and recommended him to his brother in Holland in 1916, where he studied Dutch masters, especially Rembrandt and Hals . Here he portrayed the Prince Consort Prince Hendriek of the Netherlands .

In 1919 he returned to the Chiemsee. He lived and worked in Gstadt . In 1920 he joined the artists' association "Frauenwörther" on the nearby island of Frauenchiemsee . He was better acquainted with Rupprecht von Bayern .

In 1926 Maier painted the warrior chapel on Frauenchiemsee, the front wall of the triptych shows an old fisher couple praying against the backdrop of the Chiemsee with the Fraueninsel.

He died in 1933 at the age of 38 of a kidney infection in the Hospital of the Third Order in Munich.

Honors

The artist was made an honorary citizen of Erding. There the Hiasl-Maier-Straße was named after him, in Gstadt am Chiemsee and in Poing a path.

Trivia

His picture “Im Wirtsgarten” from 1923 adorned the pitcher of the Autumn Festival 2017 in Erding.

literature

  • Art memorial exhibition Hiasl Maier-Erding , catalog, 1982
  • Hiasl Maier-Erding, his life and work 1894–1933 Verlag Prien am Chiemsee, 1983

Web links

Commons : Hiasl Maier-Erding  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ mayrwirt-erding.de: The painter Hiasl Maier-Erding ( Memento from January 26, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ ein-verbindungenzeitung.de: love for Bavaria, home and tradition
  3. ↑ inselgaleriegailer.de: Hiasl Maier-Erding
  4. ^ Fritz Aigner: Hiasl Maier-Erding. His life and his work. 1894-1933, Prien 1983, p. 242.
  5. ↑ merkur.de: A "loving motif" by Hiasl Maier
personal data
SURNAME Maier-Erding, Hiasl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Maier, Matthias (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 5, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Erding
DATE OF DEATH April 30, 1933
Place of death Munich