Max Doerner

Max Wilhelm Doerner (born April 1, 1870 in Burghausen / Upper Bavaria , † March 1, 1939 in Munich ) was a German painter and restorer and professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich.

Life

Max Doerner studied at the art academy in Munich and was a student of Johann Caspar Herterich and Wilhelm von Diez . His painting style corresponded to Impressionism , and he sought his motifs primarily in the landscape around the Ammersee .

During his study stays in Holland and Italy he dealt with the techniques of the old masters of painting and especially studied the technique of fresco painting in Pompeii . His research fundamentally changed the previous approach to restoration by trying to preserve the original substance of a damaged work of art. His publication Painting Material and Its Use in Pictures (Munich 1921) can be regarded as the first standard work in this field and has spread worldwide.

In 1911 Doerner became a lecturer in painting technique at the Munich Academy, and in 1921 he was appointed professor. In 1937 the “State Testing and Research Institute for Color Technology” (also “ Factory Testing and Research Institute”) was founded in Munich as the Reich Institute for Painting Technology, and he took over the management. This institute still exists today and is called the Doerner Institute after its founder ; it has been affiliated with the Bavarian State Painting Collections since 1946 .

Kurt Wehlte is regarded as an outstanding student of Max Doerner , whose main work, materials and painting techniques, usefully complements the, in some places, slightly outdated Doerner work.

Publications

Painting material and its use in the picture . Publishing house for practical art studies, Munich / Berlin / Leipzig 1921 ( digitized version )
- 17th edition, revised by Hans Gert Müller, Enke, Stuttgart 1989, revised by Hans Gert Müller
- 21st edition, ed. by Thomas Hoppe, Urania, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-332-01830-2

literature

Kurt Wehlte : Doerner, Max. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 34 f. ( Digitized version ).
Doerner, Max . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 28, Saur, Munich a. a. 2000, ISBN 3-598-22768-X , p. 252.
Andreas Burmester: The fight for art. Max Doerner and his Reich Institute for Painting Technique , 2 volumes. Böhlau, Cologne 2016, ISBN 978-3-412-50376-5 .
Erich Rüba: Max Doerner (1870–1939) “a subtle, spirited landscape painter” . Erich Rüba, Weßling 2019.

Remarks

^ Kurt Wehlte: Materials and Techniques of Painting , Otto Maier Verlag, Ravensburg 1967, ISBN 3-473-61157-3 ; 2., revised. Edition. Otto Maier Verlag, Ravensburg 1974, ISBN 3-473-61157-3 ; revised Edition with plate section. Urania-Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 978-3-332-01665-9 .

Web links

Literature by and about Max Doerner in the catalog of the German National Library
Dictionary of Art Historians
Doerner Institute
Paintings at artnet.de

personal data
SURNAME	Doerner, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Doerner, Max Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter and restorer
DATE OF BIRTH	April 1, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH	Burghausen , Upper Bavaria
DATE OF DEATH	March 1, 1939
Place of death	Munich

[1] Kurt Wehlte: Materials and Techniques of Painting , Otto Maier Verlag, Ravensburg 1967, ISBN 3-473-61157-3 ; 2., revised. Edition. Otto Maier Verlag, Ravensburg 1974, ISBN 3-473-61157-3 ; revised Edition with plate section. Urania-Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 978-3-332-01665-9 .