Max Barascudts

Max Barascudts: Cardinals playing chess

Max Barascudts (born June 15, 1869 in Saint-Denis , † August 22, 1927 in Munich ) was a German painter , graphic artist and book illustrator .

Life

Barascudts studied from 1892 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich under Paul Hoecker and Johann Leonhard Raab . From 1902 he was a frequent guest in the Dachau artists' colony . In addition to his book illustrations, Barascudts mainly created landscape and genre pictures .

Book illustrations (selection)

Book cover: A brave girl

• Johanna Klemm : Three Little Rice from One Trunk (1915)
• Johanna Klemm: The Riddle of Grünweide (1917)
• Hanns von Zobeltitz : Rohr im Winde and other things (1900)
• Fedor von Zobeltitz : Trude Alberti (1903)
• Fedor von Zobeltitz: The Second Sex (1913)
• Fritz Holten : The polar ship. A Tale for the Mature Youth (1910)
• Henny Koch : A Brave Girl (1914)
• Ingeborg Maria Sick : The Little Gray Cat (1915)
• Gertrud Freifrau von Hoxar : Princess Grete. Stories from the dance lesson (1920)
• Balduin Möllhausen : Four Fragments (1880)
• Balduin Möllhausen: The Fanatic (1883)
• Hedwig Schobert (Baroness v. Bode): Princely Blood (1900)
• Emil Hofmann : Old Vienna. Stories from Four Centuries (1909)
• Emil Hofmann: Legends and sagas from St. Stephen's Cathedral (1910)
• Friedrich Spielhagen : On the dune
• Marie Bernhard : A man of God

literature

• Barascudts, Max . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 1 : A-D . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1953, p. 109 .
• Horst Ludwig: Bruckmann's Lexicon of Munich Art. Munich painter in the 19th century , Munich 1982, pp. 54–55.
• Lorenz J. Reitmeier: Dachau, IV (artist directory) , Dachau 1986.
• Michael Weisser: In the style of "Youth" , 1979, p. 213.
• Gerhard Josten: Chess on oil paintings , 2006, p. 94.

Web links

Commons : Max Barascudts  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Barascudts on artnet.de
• Max Barascudts in HeidICON's Illustrations of the Flying Leaves