Max Koner
Max Koner (born July 17, 1854 in Berlin ; † July 7, 1900 there ) was a Berlin portrait painter .
Life
Max Koner studied from 1873 to 1878 at the Berlin Art Academy under Eduard Daege , Eduard Holbein , Anton von Werner and Max Michael . In 1875 he continued his education in Italy, in 1878 he went on a study trip to Paris. From 1893 to 1900 he was a member of the Prussian Academy of the Arts. He switched from landscape painting to depicting the figurative, and later devoted himself to portrait painting. Between 1888 and 1900 he created more than 100 portraits, including 30 of Kaiser Wilhelm II alone . In 1894 he received a large gold medal at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition .
Max Koner married his student Sophie Schäffer (1855–1929) in 1886 , who made a name for herself in particular as a portraitist of children. Other students were Konrad Wiederhold (* 1868), Hans and Carl Fleege (* 1871), Richard Hübsch (* 1872), Gallus Emil Henschel (1865–1923), Hermann Struck (1876–1944), Clara Siewert (1862–1945) and Paul Gerhart Vowe (1874-1937).
He was one of the preferred selection of contemporary artists that the committee for the procurement and evaluation of Stollwerck pictures suggested to the Cologne chocolate producer Ludwig Stollwerck to commission them for designs.
Max Koner was buried in Cemetery I of the Jerusalem and New Church Congregation. A competition was announced for his grave monument, which Fritz Klimsch won. It showed a relief portrait of the painter in a smooth, high marble wall. Below were two mourning women in long, classic pleated robes, carved from marble. The grave is no longer preserved (at the beginning of the 21st century).
Works (selection)
In addition to the imperial court, Max Koner also received commissions from other noble houses, from established artists, scientists and from fine Berlin society.
- Ferdinand Würzburg , (1889)
- Philipp Balke , (1889)
- Adolf von Menzel (1890 and 1895)
- Andreas Achenbach (1890)
- Emil Du Bois-Reymond (1890)
- Anton von Werner , German painter (1890)
- Ernst Curtius (1890) (National Gallery of Berlin)
- Johannes von Miquel (1893)
- Princess Solms (1893)
- Princess Pless (1893)
- Karl Max Fürst Lichnowsky , German diplomat (1894)
- Eugen Bracht , painter (1894)
- Otto Brausewetter (1835–1904), German painter (1894)
- Georg von Kameke Prussian General and Minister of War (1894)
- Leopold Schoeller (entrepreneur, 1830) , secret councilor of commerce, German industrialist (1830–1896) (1895/6)
- Herbert von Bismarck , German politician (1899)
- Ernst von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy , German banker (1899)
- Marie Siemens married the archaeologist Theodor Wiegand
- Malwine von Arnim, sister of Chancellor Bismarck (1900)
Of Max Koner's Kaiser Wilhelm II paintings are particularly well known:
- full-length state portrait in the coat of the Order of the Black Eagle for the German Embassy in Paris, 1891; lost
- In the cuirass of the regiment of the Garde du Corps, watercolor 1891, Kaiserexil Haus Doorn (given to the emperor by Kommerzienrat Eduard Arnhold in 1911 )
- in hunting uniform (1892, for Prince Pless),
- sitting in a gray military coat (1892),
- in general uniform (1892, for the Imperial Palace in Strasbourg)
- standing in a gray military coat with a cap (1893).
literature
- Max Jordan : Koner . Velhagen & Klasing, Bielefeld / Leipzig 1901 ( archive.org ).
- Max Koner . 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. 263 .
- Irmgard Wirth: Berlin painting in the 19th century. Siedler Verlag, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-572-10011-9 , p. 347.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Detlef Lorenz: Advertising art around 1900. Artist lexicon for collecting pictures. Reimer-Verlag, 2000.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Koner, Max |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 17, 1854 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 7, 1900 |
| Place of death | Berlin |