Max Baumbach

Johann Max Baumbach (born November 28, 1859 in Wurzen , † October 4, 1915 in Berlin ) was a German sculptor and wood carver .

Life

Max Baumbach studied sculpture, first from 1881 to 1884 at the teaching institution of the Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin , then at the Berlin Art Academy , from 1884 to 1885 with Fritz Schaper and from 1885 to 1887 in Reinhold Begas' master class . Since 1885 he presented his own works and was awarded at exhibitions in Munich (1892) and Chicago ( World Exhibition 1893 ). From 1890 to 1893 he worked in the Atelierhaus Lützowstraße 82 . In 1896 he was appointed a member of the Prussian Academy of the Arts .

Baumbach's work can mainly be assigned to the neo-baroque , his preferred genre were heroic statues of rulers.

“His artistic conception was somewhere between free naturalism and formal stylization. His works had lines and that also allowed them to go well with the strict forms of architecture. "

- German construction newspaper 1915

A number of his statues were placed in the cityscape of Berlin in particular. But he also created statues for other places.

At the end of the 19th century, he had the architects Otto Spalding and Alfred Grenander build a villa (Landhaus Baumbach) with his own studio house at Lietzenburger Strasse 43 in Berlin-Wilmersdorf , near Kurfürstendamm , for 75,000 marks , which was completed in late autumn 1900 has been completed.

Max Baumbach was buried in the Wilmersdorf cemetery.

Works (selection)

The Brandenburg margraves Johann I and Otto III. on Siegesallee ( monument group 5 ).
Statue of Emperor Friedrich Barbarossa for the southern entrance hall of the Reichstag building .
A colossal statue that was erected in the Berlin Cathedral in 1903 .
Equestrian statue of King Albert of Saxony in front of the Ständehaus in Dresden
Bronze monument to Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz in the Silesian town of Trebnitz
Group of six statues with the protesting imperial princes from 1529, which was placed in the memorial church in Speyer in 1914
Monument to Emperor Friedrich III. in Wörth , on the occasion of whose unveiling on October 18, 1895 Baumbach was awarded the title of professor.

Siegesallee, monument group 5
Siegesallee, Monument Group 5, Otto III. and Johann I.
Monument to Emperor Friedrich III. in Wörth (destroyed)
Unveiling of the equestrian statue of King Albert of Saxony in Dresden
"Hasenhatz (during the Rococo period)" on Fasanerieallee in Berlin

Awards

1891: Small Golden Medal (Berlin)
1892: Small Golden Medal (Munich)
1893: Gold Medal (Chicago World's Fair)
1894: Prussian Crown Order IV class
1894: Great Golden Medal (Vienna)

literature

Paul Kühn : Baumbach, Max . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 3 : Bassano – Bickham . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1909, p. 80 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Contemporary artists - Baumbach, Max. In: Spemann's Golden Book of Art. W. Spemann, Berlin / Stuttgart 1910, No. 1098 (Text Textarchiv - Internet Archive and Figure Textarchiv - Internet Archive , not paginated ).
Sculptor Professor Max Baumbach †. In: Deutsche Bauzeitung , Volume 49, 1915, No. 86 (from October 27, 1915), p. 484.
Brigitte Hüfler: Baumbach, Max . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 7, Saur, Munich a. a. 1993, ISBN 3-598-22747-7 , p. 594.

Web links

Commons : Max Baumbach - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Berlin address book. Issues 1890–1893.
↑ Berlin architecture world . 3rd year. Ernst Wasmuth, Berlin 1901, p. 209 , right column in the middle ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
^ Alfred Grenander & Otto Spalding - Villa Baumbach. The Berlin U-Bahn Archive, accessed on March 15, 2020 .
↑ Berlin architecture world . 2nd year. Ernst Wasmuth, Berlin 1900, p. 33 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
↑ Berlin architecture world . 3rd year. Ernst Wasmuth, Berlin 1901, p. 98 and 100 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

personal data
SURNAME	Baumbach, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Johann Max Baumbach (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH	November 28, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH	Spice up
DATE OF DEATH	October 4, 1915
Place of death	Berlin

[1] Berlin address book. Issues 1890–1893.

[2] Berlin architecture world . 3rd year. Ernst Wasmuth, Berlin 1901, p. 209 , right column in the middle ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

[3] Alfred Grenander & Otto Spalding - Villa Baumbach. The Berlin U-Bahn Archive, accessed on March 15, 2020 .

[4] Berlin architecture world . 2nd year. Ernst Wasmuth, Berlin 1900, p. 33 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

[5] Berlin architecture world . 3rd year. Ernst Wasmuth, Berlin 1901, p. 98 and 100 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).