Max Gaisser

In the tavern

Max Gaisser (born June 22, 1857 in Augsburg , † July 20, 1922 in Munich ) was a German representative of "narrative painting" (genre painting).

Life

After briefly attending Munich's Maximiliansgymnasium from 1869 to 1871, Max Gaisser first acquired the basics of his artistic training from his father, Jakob Emanuel Gaisser . On May 1, 1873, his entry into the class of antiquities at the Royal Academy of Arts in Munich , where he trained as a painter with Ludwig Löfftz (1845–1910) , among others . He went on study trips to France (Paris), Italy, Holland and Belgium. Max Gaisser was initially registered at various addresses in Munich. When his father died in 1899, he inherited his father's house in Pasing near Munich and finally settled there with his wife Wilhelmine (birth name unknown); the marriage remained childless. He died after long and severe suffering at the age of 66 and was buried in the old part of the Munich forest cemetery; the grave was abandoned in 1946. Gaisser's Pasinger house, which the painter Hermann Urban (1866–1946) acquired after his death, was destroyed in the bombing of the Second World War and later replaced by a new building.

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Gaisser was a very productive and successful artist and a member of the Munich Artists' Cooperative (MKG) and the Association of Munich Watercolor Artists (VMA). On behalf of King Ludwig II of Bavaria, he led one of the groups of artists who were involved in the painting of the castles of Neuschwanstein and Herrenchiemsee. His small and medium-sized figure scenes, which were initially based on the work of his father, were mostly set in Dutch interiors that he had studied and sketched during his stays in Belgium and the Netherlands and that are reminiscent of works of Dutch painting of the 17th and 18th centuries. But he also had a rich fund of drawn and watercolored studies of landscapes, streets and architecture, sketches of fishermen, seamen, traders and other types of characters that he used in his paintings. He showed this in the exhibitions of the Münchner Kunstverein, in the annual exhibitions in the royal glass palace, but also in Berlin, Bremen, Dresden, Hanover and other German cities. At the German art exhibition of the world exhibition in St. Louis, 1904, he was represented with the painting "Beim Advokaten", which the Bavarian state had bought. Even contemporary critics noticed the slight modification of his pictorial themes unpleasantly. In contrast, his well-sketched studies, which were shown, for example, in 1904/05 at the Münchner Kunstverein, were very much appreciated. Numerous paintings by Gaisser were acquired by collectors at home and abroad, but also by museums. In the Munich annual exhibition in 1923 in the Royal Glass Palace, which dedicated a room of its own to the artist who died the previous year, there were no oil paintings on display, but no fewer than 32 watercolors from the estate.

Selection of works

• In the tavern , 1882
• Flower seller : Munich, international art exhibition 1883 (exhibition cat., No. 661)
• The connoisseur ; Dutch patrician in costume from the 17th century. with meerschaum pipe and wine glass, 1883
• The love letter , 1885
• Preparing the expedition , 1887
• Men's group / meeting ; Holl. Merchants gathered over books and documents or around maps and compass, 1887
• The interrupted card game ; Gentlemen playing cards to whom the orderly brings a letter: Dresden, academic art exhibition 1888
• The merry trumpeter ; a young man singing to the lute, 1888: Dresden, academic art exhibition 1889
• The Merchant's Treasures , 1889
• The storyteller , 1891
• Musical entertainment ; Gentlemen and ladies in the presence of a prelate; Illustration: About Land and Sea 1895
• Interesting reading / still life : Illustrated catalog of the Munich annual exhibition of artists of all nations in the Royal Glass Palace 1893, No. 470, 471
• Kassasturz : Illustrated catalog of the Munich annual exhibition of artists of all nations in the Royal Glass Palace 1895, No. 218 (Fig.)
• Hunting adventure : Munich annual exhibition in the Glaspalast 1896, No. 173
• Scholar : Munich Annual Exhibition in the Glaspalast 1897, No. 512
• On board / ship's boy : Munich annual exhibition in the Glaspalast 1900, No. 274/75
• Dutch fishermen in the evening : Official catalog of the Munich annual exhibition in 1903 in the Glaspalast, No. 337 (Fig.)
• The art connoisseur : Official catalog of the Munich annual exhibition in 1904 in the Glaspalast, No. 301 (Fig.)
• A funny letter / fishermen waiting for the flood (ill.) / Still life : official catalog of the Munich annual exhibition 1905 in the Glaspalast, no. 373–375
• At the Goldschmied / Beim Notar (Fig.): Official catalog of the Munich annual exhibition in 1906 in the Glaspalast, No. 220/221
• The adoration of the relic of the Holy Blood in Bruges / At the goldsmith's / Canal in Bruges , watercolor: Official catalog of the Munich annual exhibition 1909 in the Glaspalast, No. 494 (fig.), 495, 496
• Altfrauenhaus in Bruges / Sailor from Nieuport / Sailor / Farmhouse from Tyrol (Quadratsch) / Dutch interior from Walcheren , watercolor: Official catalog of the Munich annual exhibition in 1911 in the Glaspalast, No. 626 (Fig.)
• Am Nordseestrand (Heyst) (Fig.) / Straße in Bruges , 2 watercolors: Official catalog of the Munich annual exhibition in 1912 in the Glaspalast, No. 510–512
• At the antiquarian / After the hunt (Fig.) / Egg market in Bruges : Illustrated catalog of the XI. international art exhibition, Munich 1913, No. 985-87
• The Beguinage in Bruges (Fig.) / Shipyard in Ostend / Straße in Nieuport , watercolors: Munich Annual Exhibition in the Glass Palace 1914, No. 702–704
• Canal in Gent / Strasse in Nieuport , watercolors: Munich annual exhibition in the Glaspalast 1915, No. 661, 662
• Entrance to the hospice in Bruges / Canal in Amsterdam , watercolor / Middelburg in Holland : Permanent Art Exhibition of the MKG, Munich 1918, No. 7534–7535
• The Beginage in Brussels / From Dixmuiden / At the fish market in Bruges : Munich Annual Exhibition 1918, Royal Glass Palace (MKG), No. 415-17
• Street in Mechelen / Canal in Bruges : Munich Annual Exhibition 1919, Royal Glass Palace (MKG), No. 282/83

Numerous works by Gaisser ended up in public and renowned private collections, such as the Ravené Collection in Berlin, the Simu Museum in Bucharest, the Art Institute in Chicago, the Brooklyn Art Institute in New York, the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg (no longer available there) and the Art gallery in Bremen.

• An important document , around 1885/90: Bautzen, City Museum
• The antique dealers , around 1890/1900: Berlin, Nationalgalerie
• The interrupted game of cards ( Interrupted Card Game ) / The scholar ; reading age at the window ( The Scholar ) / The Scholar ; reading age in the interior ( Dutch Interior ) / Men in the interior ( Dutch Interior ): Milwaukee, USA, Milwaukee Art Center, René von Schleinitz Collection
• Hunter's Latin , around 1890: Munich, Bavarian State Painting Collections

literature

• Gaisser, Max. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history. Volume 1/1, sheets 1–30: Aagaard – Heideck. Ms. v. Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden 1891, p. 351 ( archive.org ).
• Friedrich Jansa (Hrsg.): German visual artists in words and pictures. Leipzig 1912.
• Hans Wolfgang Singer (Ed.): General artist lexicon. Life and works of the most famous visual artists. Prepared by Hermann Alexander Müller. Literary establishment Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt / Main 1921, Volume 6, p. 105.
• Gaisser, Max . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 13 : Gaab-Gibus . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1920, p. 83 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Hermann Degener (Ed.): Who is it? 8th edition, Leipzig 1922.
• Hermann Uhde-Bernays : The Munich landscape painting in the 19th century. Part 2: 1850-1900. Munich 1927. Reissued by Eberhard Ruhmer, p. 210.
• Gaisser, Max . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 5 : V-Z. Supplements: A-G . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1961, p. 505 .
• Art Center Milwaukee (Ed.): The René von Schleinitz Collection of the Milwaukee Art Center. Edit v. Rudolf Bisanz, Milwaukee 1980, pp. 80-83.
• Bruckmann's Lexicon of Munich Art. Munich painter in the 19th century. Volume 1. 1981 (Fig.).
• Susanna Partsch : Gaisser, Max . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 47, Saur, Munich a. a. 2005, ISBN 3-598-22787-6 , p. 318 f.
• Siegfried Weiß : Art career aspiration. Painter, graphic artist, sculptor. Former students of the Munich Maximiliansgymnasium from 1849 to 1918. Allitera Verlag, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-86906-475-8 , pp. 129-133 (Fig.).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Annual report on the K. Maximilians-Gymnasium in Munich for the school year 1869/70 (and 1870/71).
2. ^ Horst Ludwig (arrangement): Catalog Neue Pinakothek Munich. Volume 4: Painting from the early days. Munich 1977, p. 58.

Web links

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

• Biography - Central Directory of Antiquarian Books