Max Eichin

Max Eichin (born April 22, 1903 in Lörrach ; † February 6, 1990 in Ettlingenweier , City of Ettlingen ) was a German painter and sculptor.

life and work

Eichin began his training as a sculptor at the general trade school in Basel in 1923 . From 1926 he attended Karl Dillinger's painting class at the Baden State Art School in Karlsruhe , and from 1928 he became a master student of Hermann Goebel .

In 1940 he was called up for military service and took part in the war against the Soviet Union . He was taken prisoner by the Soviets, from which he was released in 1947. Numerous trips to Italy, France and Spain inspired him to create a variety of landscape watercolors and oil paintings. The Paris pictures and the landscapes from the Palatinate reveal the influence of French painting, as it had found its way into the Karlsruhe Academy through Hermann Goebel, Karl Dillinger and Wilhelm Schnarrenberger.

A trip to Morocco had a lasting impact on the artist. The specific colors and light conditions in the Sahara have stimulated him to do multiple works on the desert theme. In the 1960s, more sculptural works were created again, including a bronze bust of Johann Peter Hebel in the park of the same name in Lörrach (1970). In 1985 he made a fountain sculpture "Water carrier" on behalf of the city of Ettlingen.

literature

• Max Eichin, working since 1928 . Mannheimer Kunstverein, art building on Karl-Reiss-Platz from February 18 to March 17. March 1968. Mannheim, Mannheimer Kunstverein 1968
• Max Eichin - pictures, sculptures, graphics . Karlsruhe, July 28 to August 20, 1972. Karlsruhe, Badischer Kunstverein 1972
• Max Eichin - Pictures, sculpture, graphics Lörrach, April 28 to May 26, 1974, Villa Aichele. Karlsruhe, Wetterauer 1974
• Max Eichin - paintings, watercolors, drawings, plastic . Ettlingen Castle, September 20 to October 11, 1981. Ettlingen, Museumsges. 1981.
• Paintings, watercolors, drawings, sculptures, Ettlingen Palace, September 20–10. October 1981 . Ettlingen, Museumsges., 1981
• Museumsgesellschaft Ettlingen eV (Ed.): Ettlinger Hefte. Number 16, March 1982, p. 11.
• Daniela Maier: Max Eichin - The painterly work . Catalog for the exhibition in the Museum Schloss Ettlingen, March 28 to May 8, 1994. Ettlingen: Museum Ettlingen, 1994. ISBN 3-928756-05-2
• Hans H. Hofstätter, Berthold Hänel (author), district of Lörrach (ed.): The painters of the Markgräflerland. Schillinger-Verlag Freiburg im Breisgau 2000
• Max Eichin - painting, drawing, sculpture . Städtische Galerie Fruchthalle Rastatt, 11 February to 22 April 2001. Rastatt, Städtische Galerie Fruchthalle 2001

Web links

• Homepage about Max Eichin
• City of Lörrach, Museum am Burghof, painting "View into the Wiesental near Lörrach"