Max Fleischer (botanist)

Max Fleischer (born July 4, 1861 in Piaśniki , Upper Silesia , † April 3, 1930 in Menton , France ) was a German painter and botanist . Its botanical abbreviation is M. meat.

Life

Fleischer was born as the son of Wilhelm Fleischer and Pauline Brettschneider in Upper Silesia. From 1879 to 1881 he studied art in Breslau, Berlin and Munich. In 1881 he passed the drawing teacher exam in Munich . In 1887 Fleischer went to Paris and Brittany , followed by a stay in Switzerland in 1889 . After spending 5 years in Italy, he went to Java in 1898 to make pictures for the Dutch government for the Paris World Exhibition in 1900 . In 1903 he returned to Europe and settled in Berlin. Further stays in southern France , Java, Macedonia and the Canary Islands followed.

art

Oil painting of the Botanical Garden of Bogor by Max Fleischer

Fleischer's early works are characterized by naked bodies in sunlight in the sense of Impressionist open-air painting . Fleischer later pursued a moderate expressionist direction. Fleischer also tried to establish the Indonesian batik art in Germany.

botany

Fleischer discovered the small, male gametophytes of some mosses ( dwarf males ) and in his work Die Musci der Flora von Buitenzorg set up a new deciduous moss system , which was also adopted by Viktor Ferdinand Brotherus (1849–1929) , among others . Fleischer preferred the sporophytes and the peristome as classification criteria for the mosses in his system .

gallery

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  Painting of Borobudur

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  Candi Sewu ruins

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  Painting by Candi Bima, Dieng Plateau

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  Candi Arjuna in Dieng Plateau

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  Painting of the Balinese temple

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  Portrait of the Javanese dancer

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  Portrait of a student

source

• Helmut Dolezal:  Fleischer, Max. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 232 ( digitized version ).

Web links

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