Max Antlers

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Max H. Antlers (born May 2, 1873 in Berlin , † September 24, 1952 in San Francisco , USA ) was a German painter, illustrator, interior designer and university lecturer of the Jewish faith.

Life

Almost nothing is known about Antlers childhood and adolescence. After leaving school, he began an artistic training at the art school at the Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin (until 1893) and the Berlin Academy of the Arts , before moving to Paris as a student of Jules-Joseph Lefebvre and Tony Robert-Fleury .

After further study visits, u. a. in Rome, London and New York, he completed his training at the Academy of Dessins there in 1899 . A professorship offered to him in 1907 later took him again to New York for 10 years.

During this time he also joined the Salmagundi Club , an artist association located in Manhattan.

From 1922 Antlers was back in Berlin. When the Nuremberg Race Laws came into force in 1935, the danger of political persecution also increased for him. In 1937 he was sentenced to six months in prison for an alleged relationship with his “Aryan” housekeeper. Due to this aggravation of the political mood, he left Germany forever to settle in San Francisco, where he died in 1952 at the age of 79.

Works (selection)

  • Die Liebesinsel, Berlin Tiergarten (auctioned at Quinn's Auction Galleries, Falls Church, VA; January 18, 2014), circa 1930, 43.1 × 65.5 cm, oil on canvas
  • Forest landscape , 74.9 × 102.2 cm, oil on panel
  • Farmer with team of oxen at the wayside cross in the mountains , 124 × 120 cm, oil on canvas
  • View of Bad Reichenhall , 93 × 123 cm, oil on canvas
  • Forest path to the village (1) , 78 × 90 cm, oil on canvas
  • Forest path to the village (2) , (motif identical to (1), only different in size, color and brightness), 36 × 45.5 cm, oil on canvas

literature

  • Saur: General artist lexicon. The visual artists of all times and peoples. Volume 4: Angelin-Ardon. KG Saur, Munich, Leipzig 1992

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rüdiger Hachtmann, Thomas Schaarschmidt and Winfried Suss (eds.): Berlin in National Socialism. Politics and Society 1933-1945 . Göttingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-8353-0932-6 , pp. 76/77.

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personal data
SURNAME Antlers, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Antlers, Max H.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, illustrator, interior designer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH September 24, 1952
Place of death San Francisco