Max Gudden
Max Carl Theodor Gudden (born April 11, 1859 in Werneck , Lower Franconia , Kingdom of Bavaria , † May 7, 1893 in Munich ) was a German portrait and landscape painter .
Life
Gudden was the third child of the Kleve- born psychiatrist Bernhard von Gudden and his wife Clarissa, nee Voigt (1832-1894), a granddaughter of the psychiatrist Maximilian Jacobi . His siblings were the student Ernst Gudden (1856–1875), who died of typhus , Anna Gudden (* 1857, wife of Hubert von Grashey ), Sophie Gudden (* 1860), the neurologist Clemens Gudden (1861–1931, father of the physicist Bernhard Gudden ), the genre and landscape painter Rudolf Gudden , Emma Gudden (1865–1931, wife of the painter and etcher Paul Ritter ), the psychiatrist Hans Theodor Gudden and the painter Bernhard Gudden (* 1867).
Gudden grew up in Werneck, where his father had been in charge of the county insane asylum at Schloss Werneck since 1855 . In 1869 the family moved to Zurich . There his father opened the Burghölzli psychiatric institution in 1870 . In 1873 the family moved to Munich, where the father took on a professorship at the university and headed the Upper Bavarian District Insane Asylum. A typhus epidemic raging there also infected Gudden's older brother Ernst, who died in 1875.
When Ilse von Stach's Christmas fairy tale Das Christ-Elflein was to be performed in the pre-Christmas period in 1881 , Gudden, who was 22 years old at the time, came into contact with an open light before the performance, caught fire and burned both arms, the neck, the neck and half of the face. The severe burns kept him bedside for two years. Gudden spent the rest of his life as a private citizen and artist, where he was not only portrait painting, but also landscape painting. One of his friends was the loden manufacturer Josef Beikircher . Another stroke of fate struck Gudden when his father drowned in Lake Starnberg in June 1886 together with King Ludwig II of Bavaria .
literature
- Gudden, Max . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 15 : Gresse – Hanselmann . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1922, p. 189 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Individual evidence
- ^ Ivo Ingram: Josef Beikircher (1850–1925). A man from the founding years in Tyrol . Studienverlag, Innsbruck / Vienna / Bozen 2008, ISBN 978-3-7065-4602-7 , p. 85
- ↑ Wolfgang Burgmair, Eric J. Engstrom, Matthias Weber (Eds.): Emil Kraepelin. I letters . Belleville, Munich 2000, ISBN 978-3-9335-1092-1 , p. 187
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gudden, Max |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gudden, Max Carl Theodor (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German portrait and landscape painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 11, 1859 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Werneck , Lower Franconia , Kingdom of Bavaria |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 7, 1893 |
| Place of death | Munich |