Max Kutschmann

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Max Kutschmann (born May 25, 1871 in Neumünster ; † April 1, 1943 in Berlin ) was a German art historian, decorative painter, university professor and chairman of the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts and the first chairman of the Reich Association of Visual Artists.

Life

Max Kutschmann's father, Theodor Kutschmann (1843–1901), was also a famous artist who designed, for example, the Parzival room in the Theater des Westens. Kutschmann completed an academy course and was later given a teaching position as a professor at the teaching institute of the Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin . In the final phase of the First World War he belonged to the nationalist German Fatherland Party .

Max Kutschmann had been a member of the NSDAP since 1929 . After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists , he became director of the United State Schools for Free and Applied Arts from April 10, 1933 , which under his direction in 1939 when he was officially retired, became the "State University of Fine Arts in the German Reich Capital" have been restructured. He was also head of culture in the SS Race and Settlement Main Office , as well as chairman for fine arts in the Kampfbund for German culture . In 1941 he was awarded the Goethe Medal for Art and Science .

Max Kutschmann was responsible from 1933 for the " phasing " of artists associations. Under his leadership, several professors were dismissed and students forcedly expelled . Kutschmann was married to Ida Martha geb. Brinckmann, the daughter of Justus Brinckmann , one of the founders of the Museum of Art and Industry in Hamburg . He had five children with her. Daughter Marie Luise (* July 22, 1910; † 2006 in Berlin). His grave is in the Lichterfelde park cemetery.

Works (selection)

  • Memorial stone for Gustav Krech
  • Wall paintings in the Poznan City Hall
  • Wall paintings of the old town hall of Brandenburg
  • Altar wing, gallery parapet and organ prospect of the Christ Church (Berlin-Oberschöneweide)
  • Osterholzer Friedhof (The round main room of the chapel was painted in 1920 based on a design by Max Kutschmann.)
  • 2 memorial plaques for those killed in the First World War in the Marienkirche Beetzendorf
  • The great king. (10 rotogravure prints based on contemporary copperplate engravings) Kunst und Vaterland Verlagsgesellschaft, Berlin-Schöneberg 1929, OCLC 72617106 .
  • Old Fritz. Verlag Kunst und Vaterland Verlagsgesellschaft, Berlin-Schöneberg 1930, OCLC 73022009 .
  • On the question of art classes. Self-published, Berlin 1932.
  • The universe, my people and me. Publisher Deutsche Kultur-Wacht, Berlin-Schöneberg 1933, OCLC 5769075 .

literature

  • Christine Fischer-Defoy: Art makes politics. The Nazification of the art and music colleges in Berlin. Verlag der Hochschule der Künste, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-89462-048-X , p. 293.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Memorial stone for Gustav Krech ( memento from February 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on natur-land-forum.de, accessed on February 23, 2014.
  2. ↑ a b c Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 347.
  3. ↑ According to a quote from the so-called " Führerlexikon " as early as 1927, see Ernst Klee: Das Kulturlexikon zum Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 347.
  4. ↑ Children on woydt.be, accessed on February 23, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Kutschmann, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art scholar
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Neumunster
DATE OF DEATH April 1, 1943
Place of death Berlin