Max Lachnit

Grave of Max Lachnits in the Loschwitz cemetery

Max Lachnit (born December 28, 1900 in Gittersee near Dresden , † November 1, 1972 in Dresden) was a German architect and sculptor .

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He was born as the son of the carpenter Wilhelm Lachnit and his wife Emma Martha Lachnit, nee. Springer born. His brother Wilhelm Lachnit became a successful painter. After an apprenticeship as a carpenter, Max Lachnit attended evening school at the Dresden School of Applied Arts , where he met Eugen Hoffmann , Otto Griebel , Eric Johansson (1896–1979), Otto Dix and Hans Grundig . From 1926 to 1928 he studied under Erich Zschiesche (* 1892) at the Academy of Applied Arts in Dresden and then worked as a freelance artist.

In the early 1930s he became a member of the Association of German Architects (BDA) and worked as an architect in the studio of Hermann Richter (1894–1942), a student of Karl Albiker , in Dresden. On behalf of Wilhelm Kreis , Lachnit created reliefs and ornamental sculptures from 1939. Lachnit was bombed out in 1945 and, after a short stay in Berlin , lived in Dresden from 1946, among other places, in the Künstlerhaus Dresden-Loschwitz .

For the hygiene exhibition in Dresden, he created several reliefs, as well as numerous reliefs and keystones of the Altmarkt development. In addition to figurative jewelry, Lachnit was also active in the field of graphics in his later years, so the Kupferstichkabinett Dresden owns graphics by Lachnit. Sculptures are among others in the possession of the Dresden Sculpture Collection.

Lachnit died in Dresden in 1972. His grave is in the Loschwitz cemetery .

Works in public space in Dresden (selection)

Relief jewelry on the Merkel building of the TU Dresden

• around 1929: Model for the "Simon Bolivar Monument" for Quito in Peru (with Eugen Hoffmann)
• 1954: Oriel reliefs on the student residence at Fritz-Löffler-Straße 16
• 1954: Reliefs and keystones of the eastern Altmarkt development
• 1955: Gate and segment arch on the western Altmarkt development
• 1956: Relief decoration "Teaching and Research" above the entrance of the Merkel building of the TU Dresden
• 1956: Fountain "Man's Will to Fly" in front of the Güntzpalast (fragment)
• 1957: Flügelradbrunnen , Sandstein, Hettnerstrasse 1, TU-Dresden am Potthoff-Bau The impeller as a symbol of the railway and the rail traffic refers to the traffic university. The 3 eagles on a kind of wheel symbolize the movement, referring to Hermes the messenger of the gods.
• 1958–1959: Lion boom in the Löwenapotheke, Dresden
• 1962: Altarpiece in the Hoheneichen retreat house
• 1962–1963: Bas-relief of the Transfiguration of Christ for the Catholic St. Petrus Church, Dresden-Strehlen

literature

• Museums, memorials and collections Magdeburg (Ed.): Max Lachnit (1900–1972). Plastic, painting, graphics. Magdeburg museums, Monastery of Our Dear Women, Magdeburg 1991.
• Lachnite, Max . In: Volker Klimpel: Famous Dresdeners . Hellerau-Verlag, Dresden 2002, ISBN 3-910184-85-5 , p. 99.
• Fritz Löffler:  Lachnit, Max. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , p. 378 ( digitized version ).

Web links

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

• Private website about Max Lachnit