Max Hoene

Max Hoene (born December 22, 1884 in Rudolstadt , † May 19, 1965 in Munich ) was a German sculptor .

The son of a businessman became a pupil of Wilhelm von Rümann at the Munich Art Academy in 1903 . A major exhibition of his works took place in Gotha as early as 1908 . From 1913 his work was shown regularly at exhibitions of the Munich Secession , and in 1921 also at the Dresden art exhibition . In 1927 he set up an apartment in Mies van der Rohe's house in the Weißenhofsiedlung .

Max Hoene was chairman of the Reich Association of Visual Artists from 1926 to 1933 and was elected 2nd chairman of the Bavarian Werkbund in 1950 .

One focus of his work was the art of tombs .

Works (selection)

August Petermann monument in Gotha

The bronze head Ernst Wilhelm Arnoldis in Gotha created by Max Hoene in 1958

Visual arts

• August Petermann Monument , Gotha (1909)
• War memorial (1914–1918) in Hildburghausen
• Fischbrunnen, Rimstinger Strasse, Munich (1931)
• Statue on the Seeberg near Kleinmachnow (1939, unfinished)
• Altarpiece of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Seeshaupt (1942)
• Bust of Ernst Wilhelm Arnoldis at the headquarters of Gothaer Versicherungsbank in Göttingen , erected in 1958. The bust was dismantled in March 2020 and transported to Gotha. There, on May 18, 2020, it was given a new stand in front of the building in which the "German Insurance Museum Ernst Wilhelm Arnoldi" is located.

Others

• Hans Malberg, Max Hoene: Wood-carved signposts . New designs. Prize-winning and other works from the competition organized by the Thuringian State Office for the Promotion of Crafts in Weimar. Duncker, Weimar 1936.

Web links

• Short biography (PDF; 346 kB) with picture in the Digiporta digital portrait archive

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Brief information on Volume II of the Nymphenspiegel , Nymphenspiegel Kulturforum München , accessed on September 7, 2015.
2. ↑ Heike Enzian: In 2015, Rudolstadt is full of anniversaries . In: Ostthüringer Zeitung , January 15, 2015.
3. ^ Max Hoene in the matriculation database of the Academy of Fine Arts Munich, accessed on September 7, 2015.
4. ^ ^{A b} Max Hoene in the research database on building culture in the Department of History and Theory of Architecture at TU Darmstadt , accessed on December 31, 2015
5. ^ German grove of honor for the heroes of 1914/18 . Dehain-Verlag, 1931, p. 220.
6. ↑ Kirsten Graulich: "Nothing is more powerful than humans" . In: Potsdam Latest News , July 10, 2013.
7. ↑ The altarpiece on the website of the Evangelical Lutheran parish in Penzberg, accessed on September 7, 2015.
8. ↑ Peter Koch : Pioneers of the insurance concept . 300 years of insurance history in life pictures. 1550-1850. Springer-Verlag, Wiesbaden 2013, ISBN 978-3-663-06643-9 , pp. 230 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-663-07556-1 ( limited preview in the Google book search - reprint of the book published in 1968 by the business publisher Dr. Th. Gabler in Wiesbaden).
9. ^ Peter Riecke: Third Arnoldi monument in the city of Gotha . In: Thüringische Landeszeitung . Weimar May 20, 2020, p. 15 .