Max Barta

Max Barta , also Rübezahl from Wartberg (* 1900 in Šumperk , Austria-Hungary , † 7. September 1990 in Kirchberg (Niedenstein) ) was a Sudeten German commercial artist , draftsman , painter , copyist , woodcutter , engineer , architect and restaurateur . From the mid-1920s to 1939 he was one of the most famous commercial graphic artists in Moravia .

Life

He studied mechanical engineering at the Vienna University of Technology and painting and commercial graphics in Vienna . In 1926 he finished his studies as an engineer. Max Barta then returned to his Moravian home in Schönberg and founded a promotional graphics and commercial graphics studio that quickly became known nationwide. In 1939 he had to give up his studio due to the war and was forced to work as a technician at the Dessau Junkers factories . In 1942 he came to the Fritzlar branch , where he met his wife Antonnie. He then became a soldier on the Eastern Front. After being seriously injured in the war, he was flown out of the encircled Breslau .

After the Second World War, he began building his Rübezahl house, designed in the Italian country house style , on the Wartberg near Niedenstein-Kirchberg . He set up his studio and a bar there. On the east side, he depicted the forest spirit Rübezahl from the Giant Mountains in the 1970s .

In his studio after 1945 he created realistic works based on the Willingshausen painters' colony . He portrayed personalities in North Hesse as commissioned work and quickly acquired a reputation that was well respected across the region. Counties and communities bought his work. He also worked as a copyist for Carl Spitzweg's romantic works. In his sculptural work he took up the tradition of Moravian wood carving in the Giant Mountains. Due to the war, the art-historically significant commercial graphics were only preserved through reproductions .

In 1989 his wife died. Max Barta died, almost ninety years old, shortly after her and was at her side in the cemetery buried in Kirchberg.

The estate is looked after by the Addi Ludwig family in Fritzlar.

Works (incomplete)

• Commercial art
• Kirchberg Museum
• The intercepted letter from Carl Spitzweg (copy)
• Willingshäuser landscape
• Interior design of the village community center Ermetheis near Niedenstein
• Commissioned work for the design of the Fritzlarer Lindwurm

literature

• HNA Zeitung, Verlag Diedrichs, Kassel, regional edition Fritzlar-Homberg, you called him Rübezahl from September 9, 1990, HH