Max Koch (painter)
Max Friedrich Koch (born November 24, 1859 in Berlin , † February 18, 1930 in Sacrow ) was a German history painter .
Life
Koch came from a family of artists. His father Carl Koch and his brother Georg Koch were also painters . The three of them sometimes worked together on larger assignments, also in collaboration with the marine painter Hans Bohrdt . The composer and music teacher Friedrich Ernst Koch was another brother of Koch.
Max Friedrich Koch attended the teaching institute of the Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin and became a student of Eduard Schaller and formative M. Meurer. 1876–1877, Koch undertook a study trip to Italy with the help of a scholarship and then completed his studies in Berlin on his return. From 1879 he worked under Friedrich von Thiersch on the decorative painting of the opera house in Frankfurt am Main. From 1881 he was in Paris at the École des Beaux-Arts with Pierre-Victor Galland .
In 1883 he returned to Berlin and was the successor to his teacher Meurer at the art school of the Kunstgewerbemuseum. He kept this teaching position until 1924. He became known for his Pergamon Panorama (together with Alexander Kips ) for the reconstructed Zeus Temple at Olympia at the Berlin anniversary exhibition in 1886. In 1888 this panorama was replaced by a panorama created by his brother Georg, which showed the fire of Rome in 64. In 1891 the panorama was replaced again: In a joint effort between the three Kochs and Bohrdt, the half-panorama of the entrance of Kaiser Wilhelm II into the Bosporus was created.
Max Friedrich Koch painted countless public and private buildings with historical themes popular during the imperial era in monumental fashion. In Berlin, this included premises in the Prussian mansion such as the House of Representatives and the German Reichstag, the Academy of Sciences and the Künstlerhaus (1897/98). There were also the department stores of Wertheim and Tietz.
In the province, examples are the booksellers exchange and the Reichsgericht in Leipzig, the Lübeck town hall , the city theater in Halle / Saale and the district hall in Meldorf in Dithmarschen. Some of his students were a. Max Seliger (1865–1920), Reinhold Ewald (1890–1974) and Johann Kluska (1904–1973).
Illustrations (selection)
- Max Friedrich Koch, Andreas Heusler: Urväterhort: the heroic legends of the Germanic peoples . M. Oldenbourg, Berlin 1904, OCLC 6867200 .
- Gustav Schalk: Walhalla: Germanic gods and heroes legend for school and home . Neufeld & Henius, Berlin 1906 ( germanicmythology.com - illustrations).
literature
- Koch, Max Friedrich . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 21 : Knip – Kruger . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1927, p. 90-91 .
- Max Koch . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 75 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Koch, Max Friedrich 1859 in the bibliographic database WorldCat
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Koch, Max |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Koch, Max Friedrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German history painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 24, 1859 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 18, 1930 |
| Place of death | Sacrow |