Max Köppen (painter)
Max Köppen , completely Maximilian Johann Köppen , (born October 30, 1877 in Munich , † July 11, 1960 in Weilheim in Upper Bavaria ) was a German painter, draftsman, graphic artist and art teacher.
Life
Max Köppen's father was the naval and history painter Theodor Köppen (1828–1903), who came from Langwarden near Brake on the Weser in the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg, and was married to the daughter of a music teacher, Babetta, born Wieser (* 1843). The painter, architect and designer Wilhelm Köppen (1876–1917) was Max's older brother; the sister Katharina (* 1881) died at the age of 26.
After attending primary school, Max Köppen moved to Munich's Maximiliansgymnasium in 1888 and left the secondary school in 1894. In the winter of 1894/95 he enrolled in the private drawing school of the painter Heinrich Knirr and in 1896 switched to Franz Stuck's painting class at the Munich Art Academy , where he was a master student until 1903 and was able to use a studio for four more years after graduation . After he was represented with a work in an exhibition for the first time in 1901, the award of the Graf Schack Prize enabled him to travel to Italy and Spain, from which he brought back numerous studies.
After briefly running a private school in Metz, Max Köppen first became an assistant teacher in 1907, and in 1909 a professor of life drawing, figurative drawing and design at the Magdeburg School of Applied Arts and Crafts . This was under the direction of Emil Thormählen ; Employees included the architects Albin Müller and Rudolf Rütschi, the painters Paul Lang, Paul Bürck and Ferdinand Nigg as well as the ceramists Hans and Fritz von Heider. In 1912 Max Köppen was a founding member and board member of the Börde Artists' Association in Magdeburg. In 1915 he married Dora Lindau from Magdeburg; a year later the son Theodor was born. From 1933 he was increasingly ostracized because he did not want to join National Socialism and was forced to retire in April 1934. He and his family moved to St. Georgen near Dießen am Ammersee , later to their own house in the nearby community of Riederau . Son Theodor died in 1941 as a soldier in World War II.
At the beginning of his career he was close to the Munich Secession and also worked for the magazine Jugend . After the First World War he turned to the New Objectivity . His late work in Bavaria mainly consists of landscape paintings and occasional portraits.
Max Köppen died on July 11, 1960 in Weilheim and - like his wife Dora in 1973 - was buried in the Dießen cemetery. The municipality of Riederau honored the prominent painter by naming Max-Köppen-Strasse.
Works (selection)
- Self-portrait with a palette in front of an easel , 1901 (private collection).
- Draft for a glass painting, 1906: Nuremberg, Bayerisches Gewerbemuseum.
- Christ and Magdalena , monumental painting 1916 (private property).
- "Seduction", colored lithograph; Lithographs from World War I; 5 chalk drawings from the Magdeburg war industry (1918); Kulturhistorisches Museum Magdeburg.
- Portrait of Bruno Lindau (brother-in-law) , 1918, charcoal drawing, 40 × 31 cm (private collection).
- The fight , bathers , war , prisoner transport (colored), seduction (colored), dance (1919); Lithographs (after Thieme-Becker).
- Portrait of the son Theodor , chalk drawing, inscribed: M. Köppen / 1922 .
- Grandmother Lindau (Agnes Lindau-Lange, Christmas 1947) , charcoal drawing, 32 × 24 cm.
Exhibitions (selection)
- Portrait : International Art Exhibition, Munich 1906 (Secession, Catalog No. 104)
- Self-portrait : Kunstverein exhibition, Munich 1923
- Flower piece : Landsberg, exhibition of the artists' guild Landsberg and Ammersee
literature
- Georg Hirth: 3000 art sheets of the Munich "youth". Munich [1908], p. 183 (2 illustrations).
- Köppen, Max . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 21 : Knip – Kruger . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1927, p. 173 .
- Anton Heinz Heindl: The west bank of the Ammersee, a second Worpswede. A contribution to the history of an Upper Bavarian artist colony. In: Lech-Isar-Land yearbook. Weilheim 1964, pp. 112-149.
- Bruckmann's Lexicon of Munich Art . Munich painter in the 19th and 20th centuries Century. Volume 5. Bruckmann, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-7654-1805-6 , p. 502.
- Horst Ludwig , in: Villa Stuck: Franz von Stuck and his students. Exhibition catalog. Munich 1989, p. 353.
- Norbert Eisold: Magdeburg School of Applied Arts and Crafts 1793–1963. Forum Gestaltung, Magdeburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-9813652-7-6 , p. 25.
- Siegfried Weiß : Art career aspiration. Painter, graphic artist, sculptor. Former students of Munich's Maximiliansgymnasium from 1849 to 1918. Allitera Verlag, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-86906-475-8 , pp. 202–206 (Fig.).
- Gerd Kley: Köppen, Max . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 81, de Gruyter, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-11-023186-1 , p. 144 f.
Web links
- Max Köppen in the Magdeburg Biographical Lexicon
- Auction results from Max Köppen on artnet.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Annual report on the K. Maximilians-Gymnasium in Munich for the school year 1893/94 .
- ↑ Entry of the matriculation database .
- ↑ Magdeburger Zeitung No. 623, December 8, 1907.
- ↑ Files from the Magdeburg School of Applied Arts and Crafts: Berlin, Federal Archives [Sign. R 4901, Abt. X, Fach K, K 462 (PA) or Sign. R 4901, Abt. X, E 9821, 188 ff.]
- ↑ Grave: Vladslo war cemetery (Diksmuide, West Flanders, Belgium).
- ↑ Munich Latest News. No. 206, July 30, 1935.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Köppen, Max |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Köppen, Maximilian Johann (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter, draftsman, graphic artist and art teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 30, 1877 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 11, 1960 |
| Place of death | Weilheim in Upper Bavaria |