Max Georg Rossmann

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Max Rossmann , also Max Georg Rossmann (born May 10, 1861 in Vohenstrauß / Upper Palatinate , † 1926 in Amorbach / Lower Franconia , full name: Maximilian Georg Rossmann ) was a German painter , sculptor and craftsman .

Life

Max Rossmann was born in 1861 as the son of the history and glass painter Johan Baptist Rossmann (1836–1885) in Vohenstrauß in the Upper Palatinate. After training with his father and attending the arts and crafts school in Munich, he began studying at the local academy in October 1878 with Alois Gabl , Ludwig von Löfftz , Gyula Benczúr and as a master student with Wilhelm Lindenschmit . The painter and craftsman Rudolf von Seitz was also one of his teachers. At the end of his training, Rossmann was not only a painter, but also trained in handicrafts such as pottery, wood carving and metalwork. At first he was then based in Munich.

After staying in Winterthur in 1887 and Innsbruck in 1888, Rossmann moved to Frankfurt am Main in 1892 . Study trips took him to Holland in 1898 and to Venice in 1899. In Frankfurt he made various designs for the architect and glass painter Alexander Linnemann and also for the Munich court glass painting by Franz Xaver Zettler . He made the acquaintance of Hans Thoma and Wilhelm Trübner through the Frankfurter Kunstverein . In 1901, on the mediation of Thoma to Cosima Wagner , Rossmann made the costume designs for the performance of “ The Flying Dutchman ” at the Bayreuth Festival .

After several shorter stays in the Odenwald from 1903, Rossmann finally settled in Amorbach in 1906 and became a painter of the Odenwald. In November 1906 Rossmann organized a special exhibition of church paintings, studies and drafts in the exhibition room of the " German Society for Christian Art " in Munich. Max Rossmann's work was mainly the design of churches such as religious paintings, frescoes , ceiling and glass paintings or handicraft designs, but also landscapes and portraits after about 1910 . Rossmann was a member of the General German Art Cooperative and the Munich Artists Cooperative .

Max Rossmann was married to Lilly, nee Fehler - also a painter. Max Rossmann died in Amorbach in the Odenwald in 1926.

family

The Rossmann family from Vohenstrauss produced several artists. In addition to his father and Max Rossmann, who worked as a glass painter, there was also his younger brother Hans Rossmann (1868–1915), a painter, graphic artist and illustrator - and also Max Rossmann's son of the same name, Munich-based Max Rossmann (1889–1961), who worked as a landscape and architecture painter.

Works (selection)

Building-bound

  • Glass windows, religious paintings and handicrafts for the Catholic parish church of St. Peter and Paul in Winterthur, which was still under construction in 1887
  • Apple harvest in Amorbach. Wall mosaic at the Römer in Frankfurt a. M. (Fig.)
  • Grape harvest in Hochheim. Wall mosaic at the Römer in Frankfurt a. M. (Fig.)
  • For the house of the Frankfurt art collector Johannes Noll Rossmann produced: “The relief Ruffing Peasants. the mosaic picture wedding procession. at the Katharinenpforte, the knight figures embossed in copper in the niches on the main front u. the grids cut in iron, with peasant u. Hunting scenes in front of the windows on the first floor. ”(The house was near the Katharinenkirche ).
  • Ceiling painting Transfiguration of Christ. for the parish church of St. Leopold in Hildburghausen
  • two triptychs and a cycle of wall paintings for the Herz-Jesu-Stadtpfarrkirche (Bad Kissingen) (Fig.)
  • Restoration of the high altar as well as new ceiling painting (15 pictures), Marienkapelle (Bad Kissingen)
  • Fresco at the Hotel 'Zur Post' in Amorbach

Religious paintings

  • St. James - The saint catches a tree. (Fig.)
  • The rest on the run. (Fig.)
  • St. Peter.
  • Mater Dolorosa.
  • The Savior Carrying the Cross.

painting

  • Landscape with goats. Oil on canvas, Städel Museum Frankfurt a. M. (Fig.)
  • View over the upper main valley. Oil on canvas, (fig.)
  • Sigfried at the source. Oil on canvas, (fig.)
  • Dutch landscape with cows on pasture. oil on wood
  • Farmhouses on the hillside. Oil on canvas
  • Seegarten in Amorbach. Oil on canvas
  • Bad Kohlgrub.
  • Valley near Bad Kissingen.
  • Flock of sheep.
  • Ox wagon in the sand pit.
  • Team of oxen.
  • Landscape near Bayreuth.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Matriculation of Max Rossmann, register book 1878. Academy of Fine Arts Munich, accessed on May 15, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Mixed messages. In: The Christian Art . Vol. 6, 1909/10, p. 11
  3. ↑ Rossmann, Max . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 4 : Q-U . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1958, p. 113 .
  4. ↑ a b c images at Bildindex.de
  5. ↑ Thieme, Becker: General Lexicon , see literature
  6. ↑ Mixed messages. In: The Christian Art. Vol. 9, 1912/13, p. 244.
  7. ↑ Illustration in: Die Christliche Kunst. Vol. 6, 1909/10, p. 255
  8. ↑ Illustration in: Die Christliche Kunst. Vol. 6, 1909/10, p. 250 (further illustrations on p. 251–256 and supplement p. 17)
  9. ↑ Illustration in: Die Christliche Kunst. Vol. 16, 1919/20, p. 25
  10. ↑ a b Illustrations of works by Max Rossmann on artnet
personal data
SURNAME Rossmann, Max Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rossmann, Max; Rossmann, Maximilian Georg (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, sculptor and craftsman
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Vohenstrauss
DATE OF DEATH 1926
Place of death Amorbach