Max Kaus

Memorial plaque on Kaus' house at Potsdamer Strasse 44 in Berlin Lichterfelde-West

Max Kaus (born March 11, 1891 in Berlin ; † August 5, 1977 there ) was a German painter and graphic artist , university professor and deputy director at the University of Fine Arts (HfbK) Berlin (since 1975 University of the Arts Berlin Faculty 1 ).

Life

Kaus studied from 1908 to 1913 at the educational establishment of the Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin (UAKGM) and in 1913 and 1914 at the Academy of Arts Berlin (AdK), as a painter with Erich Heckel and as a graphic artist with Ernst Ludwig Kirchner . From 1926 he was a teacher at the Berlin-Charlottenburg School of Applied Arts and Crafts , and from 1937 to 1939 a teacher at the United State Schools (VS) . In the 1940s, Kaus lived at Mommsenstrasse 40 in Berlin-Charlottenburg. After the end of the war , on July 15, 1945, he was appointed to the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Berlin (HfbK) as university professor and deputy director under Karl Hofer . In 1959, Kaus retired .

Max Kaus became a member of the Deutscher Künstlerbund in 1928 and remained so until it was forced to dissolve in 1936, at whose last annual exhibition at the Hamburger Kunstverein he took part with the portrait of woman in the mirror (tempera on canvas, 100 × 80 cm). Between 1951 and 1971 he was a board member of the re-established German Artists Association, and from 1956 to 1963 he was deputy chairman of the DKB.

Book illustrations (selection)

• Gustave Flaubert : The legend of St. Florian the hospitable. Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag , Weimar 1918 (1st volume of the "Graphische Bücher" with original lithographs)

Exhibitions

• 1929: Large art exhibition, Kunstverein Kassel

estate

The written estate has been in the German Art Archive (formerly Archive for Fine Arts) in the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg since 1987 .

Honors

• 1928: Günter Wagner Prize of the Hannover Art Association
• 1963: Berlin Art Prize

Literature (selection) and sources

• Kaus, Max . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 20 : Kaufmann – Knilling . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1927, p. 27 .
• Leopold Reidemeister : paintings from 1917–1970; on the artist's 80th birthday on March 11, 1971 on behalf of his friends. Brücke Museum, Berlin 1971.
• Max Kaus. Works 1918–1976. From private collections in Berlin at the Hochschule der Künste. Exhibition catalog. With an introduction by Curt Grützmacher . University of the Arts, Berlin 1977.
• In Memoriam Max Kaus 1891–1977. With contributions by Leopold Reidemeister, Hellmuth Kühn, Curt Grützmacher and Philip Peter Schmidt. University of the Arts, Berlin 1977.
• Ursula Schmitt-Wischmann: Max Kaus. Catalog raisonné of the paintings. Nicolai, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-87584-293-6 .
• Max Kaus. Works and documents ; Exhibitions Germanisches Nationalmuseum , Nuremberg, March 8–14. April 1991; Staatliche Kunsthalle Berlin , May 2 to June 4, 1991; Kunsthalle Darmstadt, September 15–27. October 1991. Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg. Archive for fine arts in the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg. Catalog and exhibition: Irmtraud Freifrau von Andrian-Werburg . 1991, ISBN 3-926982-21-7 .
• Christine Fischer-Defoy : Art Makes Politics The Nazification of the art and music colleges in Berlin. Berlin University of the Arts, press and information center 1996 (license from Elefanten-Press-Verlag), ISBN 3-89462-048-X .
• Claus Pese: More than just art. The archive for fine arts in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum (= cultural-historical walks in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum; Volume 2 ). Hatje, Ostfildern-Ruit 1998, ISBN 3-7757-0783-2 , pp. 120-123.
• Wolfgang Maier-Preusker : Max Kaus - Biographical notes and documentation of the original lithographs from 1919 on: The legend of Saint Julian the hospitable. Vienna 2005.
• Wolfgang Maier-Preusker: Book and portfolio works with graphics of German Expressionism. Exhibition catalog for the Hanseatic City of Wismar. Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-900208-37-9 .
• Markus Krause: Max Kaus. Catalog raisonné of the prints. Hirmer 2016, Munich, ISBN 978-3-7774-2527-6 .

Art book for Edition Hiddensee with contributions by Günter Grass , Dietmar Peikert, Franziska Ploetz, Ruth Negendanck , Max Kaus, Markus Krause and Klaus Büscher.

Web links

• Literature by and about Max Kaus in the catalog of the German National Library
• Group picture of the artist cone round around Karl Hofer (from the estate in the DKA ), online (accessed on March 31, 2016)

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Hans Vollmer : General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. Third volume: Kaal to Pyykkö. EA Seemann, Leipzig 1999, ISBN 3-363-00730-2 , p. 27.
2. ↑ Kaus, Max; Painter . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1943, IV, p. 1343.
3. ↑ 1936 banned images. Exhibition catalog for the 34th annual exhibition of the DKB in Bonn, Deutscher Künstlerbund, Berlin 1986, p. 48/49.
4. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Board members of the German Association of Artists since 1951 ( Memento of the original from December 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on September 7, 2015)