Max Kahn

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Portrait of a young woman with a hat and an opened parasol. Oil on canvas

Max Kahn (born April 22, 1857 in Mannheim ; died February 23, 1939 in Carpentras , France ) was a German portrait and genre painter who worked in Frankfurt am Main .

Live and act

Kahn spent his youth in Frankfurt, where he was a student of Angilbert Göbel and the Städel Art Institute in 1881/82 . From 1882 to 1885 he continued his studies in Munich with Karl Karger ; from 1884 to 1889 he studied at the academy in Munich with Nikolaus Gysis and Ludwig von Löfftz . He then moved to Paris , where he temporarily worked at the Académie Julian under Tony Robert-Fleury and stayed there until 1914.

Kahn's paintings have been shown at exhibitions in Antwerp, Berlin, London, Munich and Paris. He preferred a concentrated lighting effect in the interiors and the strong emphasis on local colors, making his style reminiscent of the old Dutch or Flemish masters. Some of his portraits are known, for example Les inseparables , L'indiscrete , Girls' secret , Am Backtrog or the lady with the pinscher .

The painting Vampyr, exhibited in 1892, consolidated his position as a painter and was later shown in Berlin. In 1893 he toured Italy, 1897 and 1898 Holland. In addition, almost every year he spent several months on the island of Bréhat in Brittany. Kahn mainly painted genre scenes from rural life and portraits. Between 1890 and 1914 he regularly sent to the Paris Salon of the Société des Artistes Français , in 1902 the exhibition in Versailles and in 1898 the international exhibition in Barcelona . From 1894 his works were shown several times in the Great Berlin Art Exhibition and in the Glaspalast in Munich.

family

Kahn, who came from a Jewish family, had been married to Cornélie Thérese Pouzol (born June 24, 1870 in Carpentras) since June 2, 1901, who had been his model in numerous pictures. Shortly before the outbreak of World War I, the couple left France and moved to Bad Homburg and Frankfurt am Main. From 1921 the two lived in Auerbach (Bensheim) in what is now a listed villa at Martinstrasse 6 (from 1933 to 1945 Adolf Hitler Strasse). After the November pogroms in 1938, they left Germany to settle in the southern French city of Carpentras, where their wife was born, on Avenue Petrarque. Max Kahn died there a few weeks after his arrival. His wife lived there until her death on August 10, 1951. Since the couple had no children of their own, they bequeathed their fortune to a niece and her husband. Their children later made claims to the inheritance of just over 1 million Swiss francs.

Awards

Kahn received numerous awards including:

  • 1891 “mention honorable” for his ink and chalk drawings at the “Blanc et Noire” exhibition in Paris.
  • In 1894 he was appointed "Officier de l'Academie".
  • 1894 “mention honorable” for his work Travail delicat in Barcelona.
  • 1899 “mention honorable” for his work questions d'interets in Paris.

literature

  • Adolph Kohut : Famous Israelite Men and Women in the Cultural History of Humanity - Life and Character Images from the Past and the Present. Payne, Leipzig-Reudnitz approx. 1900, Volume 1, pp. 270-272.
  • Heinrich Weizsäcker , Albert Dessoff: Art and artists in Frankfurt am Main in the nineteenth century. Volume 2: Biographical Lexicon of Frankfurt Artists in the Nineteenth Century. Published at the instigation of the Frankfurter Kunstverein. Baer, ​​Jügel, Keller, Prestel & Abendroth, Frankfurt am Main 1909, p.?.
  • Kahn, Max . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 19 : Ingouville – Kauffungen . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1926, p. 437 .
  • Salomon Wininger : Great Jewish National Biography. Kraus Reprint, Nendeln 1979, ISBN 3-262-01204-1 (reprint of the Czernowitz edition 1925), Volume 3: Hey – Laz. P. 368.

Web links

Commons : Max Kahn  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Registration No. 80: Kahn, Max .
  2. ↑ Adolph Kohut : Famous Israelite Men and Women in the Cultural History of Humanity - Life and Character Pictures from the Past and the Present. Payne, Leipzig-Reudnitz approx. 1900, Volume 1, pp. 270-271 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive , illustration of a portrait study and delicate work ).
  3. ^ In re Holocaust Victim Assets Litigation - Case No. CV96-4849 - Accounts of Max Kahn and Cornélie Thérèse Kahn crt-ii.org (English, PDF)
  4. ↑ Adolph Kohut : Famous Israelite Men and Women in the Cultural History of Humanity - Life and Character Pictures from the Past and the Present. Payne, Leipzig-Reudnitz approx. 1900, Volume 1, p. 272 ​​( Textarchiv - Internet Archive , short biography).
personal data
SURNAME Kahn, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German portrait and genre painter
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim
DATE OF DEATH February 23, 1939
Place of death Carpentras , France