Max Friese
Max Robert Sofus Friese (born April 15, 1883 in Dresden , † 1958 in Schwabach , Middle Franconia ) was a German painter and graphic artist .
Life
Friese lived and worked in Wroclaw until he fled after the Second World War . He studied at the Royal School of Arts and Crafts (from 1911 Art Academy ) under Max Wislicenus and Eduard Kaempffer . He then studied with Johann Caspar Herterich the Elder. Ä. and with Carl von Marr at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . He was a member of the " Artists Association of Silesia ". In 1939 Friese received the City of Wroclaw Art Prize .
After the Second World War , Friese lived in Schwabach. The city commissioned him and Kurt Severin (1896–1970), who also lived there, to design the large conference room of the town hall. Using 14,000 sheets of Schwabach gold leaf , they designed a frieze of ornamented inscriptions with the names of important Schwabach companies. Since then the hall has been called the “Golden Hall”, which was destroyed by arson on January 15, 1974 and restored in 2000–2002.
Works
In 1916/1917 Friese created a cycle of 14 large-format oil paintings with scenes from the Nibelungen saga. They were originally intended to be hung in a hall of the German officers' mess on the Beverloo military training area. Since this was politically impossible after the end of the First World War, Friese sold them to the then owner of the Rudelsburg , where they were hung in 1922.
literature
- Klaus Pokrant (ed.): Pictures in the Knights' Hall of Rudelsburg. oO [= Kreipitzsch], o. Y [= around 2005].
Individual evidence
- ↑ Birth register StA Dresden II, No. 1138/1883
- ↑ "Golden Hall" from Schwabach
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Friese, Max |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Friese, Max Robert Sofus (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and graphic artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 15, 1883 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dresden |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1958 |
| Place of death | Schwabach , Middle Franconia |