Max Lange (artist)

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Johann Joseph Max Lange (born March 29, 1868 in Cologne , † September 22, 1947 in Bad Tölz ) was a German doctor and late impressionist sculptor , painter , draftsman and etcher .

Life

Working as a medic

Max Lange came from a family originally located in the Electorate of Hesse . He was the youngest son of the well-known Cologne architect August Carl Lange (1834-1884) and his wife Christiane Rosalie, née Aubel, daughter of the painter Karl Christian Aubel . Lange attended high school in Cologne and studied medicine at the University of Leipzig from 1883 to 1891 . He then worked as a physician at the Pathological-Anatomical Institute in Leipzig and was on July 9, 1894 under Professors Felix Victor Birch-Hirschfeld , Department of Pathological Anatomy , and Heinrich Curschmann , professor of internal medicine , PhD . At the same time, he worked as a lecturer in plastic anatomy at the Leipzig Art Academy .

Working as an artist

Former studio of Max Lange in Leipzig-Gohlis

Long was already busy with his habilitation when he left his medical career to develop as an autodidact into a very sought-after sculptor in an incredibly short time, whose early works, e.g. the bronze sculptures Nackter Jüngling mit Stab (1903) and Lucifer ( 1906), show great artistic skill.

Initially he was connected to Art Nouveau . Lange created numerous portrait busts , monuments , tombs, medals and plaques for public and private clients, especially for scholars at Leipzig University.

In 1900 the Leipzig Art Academy was converted into the Royal Academy for Graphic Arts and Book Trade and a year later Max Seliger took over the directorate. He undertook a reorientation of the institution and put the workshop of the artist in the foreground. As part of this reorientation, Seliger offered Max Lange, who had already been awarded the title of professor after nine years, a teaching post in 1908, which Lange turned down because of his own creative plans.

On December 23, 1910, he married the Danish Nora Kjaer (1874–1927) in Leipzig and moved with her to the Gohlis district , where he now also set up his studio.

A typical example of his dissolution of an organic connection between architecture and sculpture is the “ Puttenbrunnen ” in Leipzig , which he designed in 1913, which won first prize in a competition .

The artist couple left Leipzig in 1917 and, after staying in Wernigerode , Göttingen , Assens and Schorndorf , settled in Munich in November 1921 , where they led an unsteady life characterized by changing addresses and numerous trips.

After the sudden death of his wife, Max Lange moved into an apartment on Hiltensberger Strasse, near Munich's north cemetery , where his wife's grave was.

He set up a sparsely furnished studio in the courtyard building of the former municipal military office in Munich, which contained a marble bust of his wife, who had died young, as its only ornament.

His late work as a painter and etcher was shaped by the open-air painting of the French Impressionists. He created numerous depictions of the North German and Danish landscapes based on French late Impressionist open-air painting.

The high point of his late work was the Beethoven bust made in 1937 on the mediation of his friend, pianist Elly Ney .

As a result of the bombing raids on Munich, Max Lange lost his shelter and moved to Kirchbichl near Bad Tölz on July 22, 1944. In 1947 the artist died in a hospital in Bad Tölz. His urn was buried in his wife's grave in Munich's north cemetery.

Individual sculptural works are donated by the artist in the Kunsthalle Bremen . Further works can be found in public places, in the Leipzig Museum or in private art collections.

Memberships

Max Lange was a member of the German Association of Artists .

Works

literature

  • Alfred E. Otto Paul: The sculptor phenomenon Max Lange (1868-1947). In: Ders .: Art in silence. Art treasures in Leipzig cemeteries . Leipzig 2014, pp. 133–151.
  • Archive of the Kunsthalle Bremen
  • Information on the artwork Danish landscape from 1935
  • Long, 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. 328 . (incorrectly titled here as "Dr. phil.")

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ according to information from the Leipzig University Archives
  2. ↑ Alfred E. Otto Paul: Art in silence. P. 150.
  3. ↑ University Archive Leipzig, Quästurkartei
  4. ↑ University Archive Leipzig, Med.Fak.Prom. Volume 7.
  5. ↑ skd-online-collection.skd.museum Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden , Skulpturensammlung.
  6. ^ Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig
  7. ↑ Pöhlitzstraße 6: In this studio later worked the Leipzig artist Wil Howard , Max Alfred Grumpy and Max Schwimmer
  8. ↑ Leipzig's oldest fountain: the Lipsia fountain
  9. ^ A b Peter Trumm: A Stegemann medal and its creator. In: Koblenzer Heimatblatt. (= weekly special supplement of the Koblenzer General-Anzeiger), Volume 6 (1929) No. 24 (June 16, 1929) pp. 1–2.
  10. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Full members of the German Association of Artists since it was founded in 1903 / Lange, Max ( Memento of the original from February 24, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been 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 October 3, 2015) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuenstlerbund.de
personal data
SURNAME Long, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lange, Johann Joseph Max (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Art Nouveau sculptor, late impressionist painter and etcher
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH September 22, 1947
Place of death Bad Tölz