Max Deiters

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Max Deiters (born September 14, 1892 in Altona ; † January 15, 1947 in Hamburg ) was a German lithographer , graphic artist and painter .

Live and act

Max Deiters was one of four children of a shipyard worker. He completed a four-year apprenticeship as a lithographer and studied part-time evening courses at the Hamburg School of Applied Arts . From 1912 to 1919 he did military service. During the First World War , terrible things happened on the war front and he was badly wounded. These experiences made him a declared war opponent. In 1930 he wrote in the manuscript of his curriculum vitae, which is kept in the Hamburger Kunsthalle , that he was a member of the soldiers' council .

From 1920 to 1924 Deiters worked as a press draftsman and benefited from the increasing demand for illustrations for newspapers. He created critical-realistic pictures of the Port of Hamburg , which appeared in a multi-part report by the Hamburger Anzeiger . His cover pictures and drawn series appeared from 1926 to 1933 in the weekly Volk und Zeit , which was published as a supplement to many social democratic daily newspapers, including the Hamburger Echo . Deiters designed election posters for the SPD , which were reproduced in the private print shop Auer and hung in Hamburg and across the Reich from 1927 onwards. He was one of the few Hamburg artists who openly supported the work of the SPD during the Weimar Republic . During this time he created paintings and graphics, even without commissions, in which he discussed warlike and social problems, work, unemployment and working conditions and hunger. The works were exhibited in the Hamburger Kunsthalle in 1925 and 1930.

During the time of National Socialism Deiters had to limit himself to non-political illustrations. Friends of the press placed him between 1933 and 1937 for orders from newspapers and magazines. Since he was de facto subject to a professional ban, his wife Lili provided her husband and their son with a living with her own illustration drawings. After 1937 Deiters only made occasional and anonymous illustrations. In his paintings and drawings he limited himself to portraits, flowers and landscape motifs. From 1943 onwards he depicted the effects of the bombing war.

The artist, who suffered from tuberculosis in 1942 , was committed to democratic reconstruction after the end of the Second World War . He also participated in a denazification committee . He died in Hamburg in January 1947. His wife continued to work as an illustrator for newspapers after her husband's death.

literature

personal data
SURNAME Deiters, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lithographer, graphic artist and painter
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Altona
DATE OF DEATH January 15, 1947
Place of death Hamburg