Max Kahlke

Marienaltar triptych by Max Kahlke from 1927, Schleswig Cathedral

Max Kahlke (born January 13, 1892 in Glückstadt , † February 28, 1928 in Kiel ) was a German painter and graphic artist .

Life

Grave in Glückstadt

Kahlke was born as the eldest son of his parents Jacob and Minna, geb. Raave, born in Glückstadt. His artistic training: Winter semester 1911/12 studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart ( Robert Poetzelberger ), winter semester 12/13 and 13/14 at the Grand Ducal Saxon Art School Weimar ( Fritz Mackensen ).

Kahlke gave his academic training little importance. The meeting with the Tyrolean painter Albin Egger-Lienz , formerly a teacher in Weimar, was important for him . A portrait of his grandfather qualified him for admission to the Schleswig-Holstein Art Cooperative as early as 1912 . He was also a member of the Hamburg Artists' Association .

During the First World War, Kahlke was wounded and treated for months in various hospitals. From the end of the war until his untimely death in 1928, he was based in Glückstadt. In 1925 he was accepted as a member of the Altona artist association . In 1926 he joined the newly founded artist group De Warft .

His grave is in the Glückstadt cemetery.

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Kahlke's work includes oil paintings , watercolors and woodcuts . Themes are religious subjects , marshland and portraits. He improves his livelihood with commercial graphics. Above all, four religious works secure him a place in the art epoch of the 20s, between Expressionism and New Objectivity , The Crucifixion II in Flensburg , the Great St. Mary's Altar in Schleswig Cathedral, the Pieta and The Crucifixion in the town church Glückstadt .

Public collections

• State Museum for Art and Cultural History , Schleswig
• Detlefsen Museum Glückstadt
• Prinesshof District Museum , Itzehoe
• City Museum Flensburg
• Altonaer Museum , Hamburg

Exhibitions

• 1927 Itzehoe (Max Kahlke, Helene Gries-Danican , Carl Blohm , Hermann Wehrmann , Wenzel Hablik )
• 1928 Memorial exhibitions: Altonaer Museum, Kunsthalle Kiel , Städtisches Museum Flensburg
• 1942 exhibition in Glückstadt
• 1977 Künstlerbund Steinburg, Itzehoe
• 1977 Itzehoe, Museum Prinzesshof, 50 years ago (including Max Kahlke)
• 1980 Hamburg, Winter Gallery
• 1987 Glückstadt, Detlefsen Museum
• 1992 Exhibitions for Max Kahlke's 100th birthday 1892–1928 : The religious work in Glückstadt and insights into the work in Itzehoe.
• 2009 Glückstadt, art collection of the Detlefsen Museum, including works by Kahlke
• 2017 Glückstadt, Detlefsen Museum, "Max Kahlke. Zum 125."
• 2017 Itzehoe, Wenzel Hablik Museum, "A reunion. Five Steinburg artists: Blohm, Gries-Danican, Hablik, Kahlke, Wehrmann"

literature

• Max Kahlke in memory , Altonaer Nachrichten , August 11, 1928, p. 2 ( digitized version )
• Vollmer: General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the 20th Century. EA Seemann Verlag, Leipzig 1999, volume 3, p. 4
• The new rump. Lexicon of visual artists from Hamburg, Altona and the surrounding area. Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 2005, ISBN 978-3529027925 , p. 217.
• Otto Lehmann: Artistic Life . In: Heimatbuch des Steinburg District , Volume 1, 1924, p. 367.
• Franz Michaelsen: The painter Max Kahlke. In: Art in Schleswig-Holstein . 1954, pp. 154-161.
• Exhibition catalog Max Kahlke 1892–1928 , Glückstadt and Itzehoe 1992. Contains the comprehensive by H.-P. Widderich compiled catalog of works, including commercial graphics.
• H.-P. Widderich: Painting in the Elbmarschen . Glückstadt 1994, p. 16 ff.
• H.-P. Widderich: Max Kahlke . In: Lectures of the Detlefsen Society , Issue 15, Glückstadt 2012, pp. 45–72.
• Christian Boldt, exhibition catalog Max Kahlke. For the 125th , Glückstadt 2016.

Further references: Exhibition catalog Künstlerbund Steinburg, 1977

Web links

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