Max Kuchel

Landscape with a footbridge over a stream

Carl Hermann Robert Dietrich Max Kuchel (born November 3, 1859 in Altona , † May 21, 1933 in Klein Flottbek ) was a Hamburg landscape and portrait painter.

Life

Max Kuchel was born the son of the painter Theodor Kuchel (1819–1885) and was a cousin of Friedrich Kallmorgen . From 1880 to 1881 he studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy under Heinrich Lauenstein and from 1885 to 1888 at the Royal Academy of Arts in Munich under Fritz Baer . From 1883 to 1885 he worked as a drawing teacher in Altona. From 1889 to 1909 he ran a schoolgirls studio for landscape and still life painting. In 1895 he married his student Marie Julie Amalie Helling, daughter of a wealthy Hamburg merchant.

Max Kuchel went on study trips to Holstein Switzerland , Bohemia and Holland . He also visited the islands of Rügen and Vilm and the Darss in 1881, 1897, 1898, 1904 and 1911 . From 1917 to 1919 he was a member of the Altona Artists 'Association and from 1888 a member of the Hamburg Artists' Association from 1832 , of which he was secretary for many years. In the district of Klein Flottbek belonging to Hamburg-Othmarschen , the Kuchelweg was named after him and his father in 1951. His residential and studio house built there in 1912 is now a listed building.

literature

Kuchel, Max . In: Ernst Rump : Lexicon of visual artists in Hamburg, Altona and the surrounding area . Hamburg 1912, p. 74 ( digitized version ).
Kuchel, Max . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 22 : Krügner – Leitch . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1928, p. 40 .
Kuchel, Max. In: Volker Detlef Heydorn : Painter in Hamburg. Volume 3: 1966–1974 , Professional Association of Visual Artists, Hamburg (ed.), Hans Christians Verlag, Hamburg 1974, ISBN 3-7672-0290-5 , p. 132.
Kuchel, Max . In: Berend Harke Feddersen: Schleswig-Holsteinisches Künstler-Lexikon with the collaboration of Lilianne Grams and Frauke Gloyer, Nordfriisk Instituut , Bredstedt 1984, ISBN 3-88007-124-1 , p. 104.
Kuchel, Max . In: Axel Feuß, Gerhard Kaufmann (foreword): Altonaer Künstlerverein 1905–1939 , publication accompanying the exhibition, September 7, 1990 - January 21, 1991. Altonaer Museum, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-927637-05-X , pp. 84– 85.
Friedrich Schulz : Ahrenshoop. Artist Lexicon. Verlag Atelier im Bauernhaus, Fischerhude 2001, ISBN 3-88132-292-2 , p. 112.
Kay Rump, Maike Bruhns : Kuchel, Max . In: The new rump. Lexicon of visual artists from Hamburg, Altona and the surrounding area . Supplemented and revised by Maike Bruhns, Ed .: Familie Rump, revised new edition. Wachholtz, Neumünster 2013, ISBN 978-3-529-02792-5 , p. 254.

Web links

Commons : Max Kuchel - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Bernd Schröder: A frequent guest in Holstein Switzerland. In: Ostholsteiner Anzeiger. 29th November 2018.
↑ Rita Bake : A Memory of the City. Streets, squares, bridges named after women and men , Volume 3, as of December 2017, p. 795 ( PDF file )

personal data
SURNAME	Kuchel, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Kuchel, Carl Hermann Robert Dietrich Max (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Hamburg landscape and portrait painter
DATE OF BIRTH	November 3, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH	Altona
DATE OF DEATH	May 21, 1933
Place of death	Klein Flottbek

[OH-Anz-1] Bernd Schröder: A frequent guest in Holstein Switzerland. In: Ostholsteiner Anzeiger. 29th November 2018.

[2] Rita Bake : A Memory of the City. Streets, squares, bridges named after women and men , Volume 3, as of December 2017, p. 795 ( PDF file )