Max Fabian
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Max Fabian (born March 3, 1873 in Berlin ; died March 26, 1926 there ) was a German-Jewish painter and graphic artist .
Life
After a broken business apprenticeship, at the suggestion of the history painter Anton von Werner , he studied from 1891 to 1900 at the Berlin Art Academy under Franz Skarbina , Paul Meyerheim and Joseph Scheurenberg . During his studies he received several scholarships and awards. From 1900 to 1904/05 he was a master student with Arthur von Kampf . From 1898 Max Fabian exhibited regularly at the great art exhibitions in Berlin, Munich, Dresden and Düsseldorf. From 1903 he ran his own painting school in Berlin. In 1914 he came to Poland and Russia as a volunteer war painter, where his contact with Eastern Jewry opened up a new area of material for him. During this time he made the drawing of the Jewish Quarter, Lodz . From 1915 he went to the French front as a soldier. He documented his war experiences in numerous drawings.
In 1918 he returned wounded from the war to Berlin, where he taught from 1919 to 1922 as a teacher at the drawing and painting school of the Association of Berlin Women Artists . Stylistically, he can be assigned to the representatives of German impressionism . Despite a certain affinity for modern trends, Fabian kept his distance from these and their associations and was a member of more conservative associations (from 1903 Association of Berlin Artists , from 1904 Märkischer Künstlerbund , 1912–1920 German Artists Association ).
“A now almost forgotten painter of Berlin Impressionism, to be seen in connection with artists like Max Liebermann, comparable in its modernity and easily conceivable as a member of the Berlin Secession , although Fabian never joined it. An artist, without a doubt wrongly forgotten, who was thoroughly erased from memory during the Nazi regime due to his Jewish origins. "
Fabian's widow, being Jewish, was forced to emigrate from Germany in 1939. She took her husband's artistic estate with her to London , where it was largely destroyed by German bombing raids in 1940/41. For this reason, only a few works by the artist Max Fabian have survived.
The Berlin City Museum Foundation dedicated in 2000, the painter Max Fabian and his active also as an artist son, who lives in Australia sculptor Erwin Fabian , in Ephraim-Palais exhibition.
literature
- Karl Schwarz : Fabian, Max. In: Jüdisches Lexikon . Jüdischer Verlag, Berlin, Volume 2, 1928, Sp. 575 ( sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de ).
- Fabian, Max . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 11 : Erman-Fiorenzo . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1915, p. 160 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Max and Erwin Fabian: Berlin - London - Melbourne. Stadtmuseum Berlin Foundation, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-910029-27-2 .
- Michael Böhlitz: Fabian, Max . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 36, Saur, Munich a. a. 2003, ISBN 3-598-22776-0 , p. 62.
Web links
- Works by Max Fabian in the holdings of the Jewish Museum Berlin
Individual evidence
- ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Full members of the Deutscher Künstlerbund since it was founded in 1903 / Fabian, Max ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .
- ↑ Andreas Conrad: Max and Erwin Fabian: The swoop of the Icarus. In: Der Tagesspiegel. November 8, 2000 ( tagesspiegel.de ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fabian, Max |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and graphic artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 3, 1873 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 26, 1926 |
| Place of death | Berlin |