Max Escher

Max Escher (born October 27, 1901 in Hof , † March 26, 1976 in Marxgrün ) was a German artist and art educator .

Career

Max Escher attended elementary school in Hof, later the Jean-Paul-Gymnasium , which he graduated from high school in 1921. His parents' house was on Koenigstrasse in Hof. He studied in Munich at the School of Applied Arts , the Technical University and the Academy of Fine Arts . One of his teachers was Professor Adolf Schinnerer , who was born in Schwarzenbach an der Saale . From 1929 to 1938 he was an art teacher at the Münchberg Realschule and until his retirement in 1964 at the Jean-Paul-Gymnasium Hof . Gunther le Maire was one of his students there. Escher made large-format oil paintings of the Franconian Forest , but also of southern France and the Ukraine. In addition, he also painted socially critical works and dealt with current events of his time. He also represented socially uncomfortable positions and opposed the bourgeois artistic taste. Woodcuts show motifs from the medieval Hofer Land . He was also a sculptor and portrait painter. At the end of his life, living in Marxgrün, next to his wife's house, he devoted himself to abstract art. Like Karl Schricker, he is one of the founding members of the Nordfranken group as an association of artists. Until recently, Escher worked in the editorial department of the Kulturwarte . Among other things, he wrote an essay on Wilhelm Kohlhoff and an article on Artur Sansoni . He has written articles about contemporary local and other artists known to him and on the visual arts . Some of his works were part of the exhibition at Pommersfelden Castle .

bibliography

• Karl Schricker - a Franconian painter and winner of the Dürer Prize . In: Kulturwarte. Monthly magazine for art and culture (XIX. Vol. / No. 12), 1973, pp. 236–241.
• Arthur Sansoni. A master of granite . Ulrich, Nuremberg 1956.

literature

• Article in the Frankenpost from October 25, 2012
• Ralf Sziegoleit: Rescuing ideals through - On the death of the painter and art educator Max Escher . Article in the Frankenpost dated March 31, 1976
• Painter Escher died . Article in the Frankenpost dated March 27, 1976
• Max Escher died . In: Kulturwarte - monthly for art and culture . Issue 5/1976. P. 84.
• Max Beisbart: Visit of Max Escher's studio . In: Kulturwarte - monthly for art and culture . Issue 11/1972. Pp. 213-218.
• Karl Bedal : My friend Max Escher . In: Kulturwarte - monthly for art and culture . Issue 6/1976. Pp. 104-107.