Max Feldbauer

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Max Feldbauer in 1930

Max Feldbauer (born February 14, 1869 in Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz , † November 20, 1948 in Münchshöfen near Straubing ) was a German painter , a member of the Scholle and the Munich Secession and a founding member of the Munich New Secession .

Life

Max Feldbauer was the son of the mayor of Neumarkt, Josef Feldbauer. After his father and five younger siblings died, his mother and Max moved to Munich . Here his painting training began at the arts and crafts school . He switched to the private painting school of the Hungarian Simon Hollósy , where he came closer to Impressionism . At the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich he continued his studies with Otto Seitz , Paul Hoecker and Johann Caspar Herterich . As a young academic he got to know the great Munich painters - Stuck , Trübner , Lenbach , Defregger . He became a co-founder of the artist group Die Scholle and contributed to the magazine Die Jugend . In 1908 he left Die Scholle and joined the Munich Secession. In 1913 he became a co-founder of the Munich New Secession , in which he worked with Albert Weisgerber on the board. In autumn 1898 he spent several weeks in Harburg with Angelo Jank , also a horse lover.

In December 1899 Feldbauer married the painter Elise Eigner from Fronberg near Schwandorf .

Feldbauer was a teacher at the women's academy of the Munich Artists ' Association from 1901 to 1915 . From 1912 to 1922 Feldbauer headed a painting school in Mitterndorf near Dachau . After several trips to Brittany , Switzerland , Tyrol , Heligoland and Italy , he settled in Mitterndorf near Dachau. In 1916 he was appointed to the Dresden School of Applied Arts , and in 1918 to the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts , of which he became President in 1928. In 1933, after Adolf Hitler came to power , he was initially banned from exhibiting his works. Feldbauer then moved to Munich, where he was bombed out in 1944. He then moved to Münchshöfen in the Oberschneiding community ( Straubing-Bogen district ), where he died in 1948.

In August 1944, Adolf Hitler included him in the God-gifted list of the most important painters in the Nazi state .

Artistic work

Max Feldbauer: Elise Feldbauer (1908)

Feldbauer was one of the most zealous contributors to the weekly newspaper Die Jugend , to which he contributed around 250 papers. He became known as a member of the artist group Die Scholle and participating in their exhibitions in the Glaspalast in Munich . His coarse Bavarian style was also reflected in his choice of motifs and painting style. He preferred to paint rural scenes, soldiers and horses, but also tavern atmosphere.

In the announcement by the Gemäldegalerie Dachau for the first solo exhibition of the painter's works in 80 years, Max Feldbauer is quoted: “In 1904 I actually only began to paint. Basically, I don't think the expression ›Impressionism‹ is right; rather, “Improvisationism”. I stood up and started and stopped. Finished. I don't love so-called fantasy, so I stayed away from the composition: a head, a figure, a nude, a horse were completely sufficient for me. "

Works, exhibitions and honors

  • until 1908 exhibitions with the artists' association Die Scholle im Glaspalast
  • 1910 Feldbauer special exhibition in the Brakl art dealer in Munich
  • 1915 Feldbauer exhibition in Dresden
  • 1928 won the painting competition in Amsterdam
  • 1933 received the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art
  • 1944 Exhibition of the graphic work in the House of German Art with the presentation of the Goethe Medal for Art and Science .
  • 2015 Picture gallery Dachau

Works in museums

literature

  • Ewald Bender: Feldbauer, 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. 362–363 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
  • Max Feldbauer . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 2 : E-J . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1955, p. 87 .
  • Bernd Dürr: Leo Putz: Max Feldbauer and the circle of “Scholle” and “youth” in Dachau around 1900. Dachau 1989.
  • Karl Breitschaft (Ed.): 125 years of Max Feldbauer. In: The Neurieder Collection. Munich 1994.
  • "Nude and horse were enough for me ...". The painter Max Feldbauer 1869–1948. Catalog Gemäldegalerie Dachau. Dachau 2015, ISBN 978-3-930941-84-1 .

Web links

Commons : Max Feldbauer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgaang Hultsch (Ed.): Wars, resistance, Frauenkirche . ISBN 978-3-7448-6762-7 , pp. 74 .
  2. ^ Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 149.
  3. ↑ dachauer-galerien-museen.de "Nude and horse were enough for me ...". The painter Max Feldbauer 1869–1948. October 16, 2015 - February 28, 2016 . Dachau galleries and museums, accessed on November 8, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Feldbauer, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate
DATE OF DEATH November 20, 1948
Place of death Münchshöfen near Oberschneiding , Lower Bavaria