Max Langer

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Max Langer (born July 12, 1897 in Spitzkunnersdorf , † May 3, 1985 in Niederoderwitz ) was a German painter .

Life

From 1917 to 1921 Max Langer studied at the Art Academy in Dresden . There followed a period of wandering through Upper Bavaria before he returned to his homeland. In 1928 he married and started a family. The local painter Max Langer found great recognition, especially for his typical reverse glass painting and his cycle "An Oberlausitzer Weberleben". 1981 Awarded the Upper Lusatia Art Prize. Also known are “Der Labensboam” and the “Lausitzer Peep box”. His topics always dealt with the social conditions in his Upper Lusatian homeland and with the traditional folk culture of the region.

Publications

  • A weaver's life in Oberlausitz
  • The Labensboam
  • My Lausitzer peep box, by Max Langer with verses by Manfred Streubel. Afterword by Manfred Bachmann. First edition, Rudolstadt, Greifen (1979), Rudolstadt, Greifenverlag 1982. 2nd ed.

literature

  • Stötzer, Werner, Langer, Max: What makes sense to the connoisseur and also to the cook art, images of pictures in Das Magazin, issue 11/1957
  • Sandberg, Herbert: Behind Glass in Niederoderwitz in Das Magazin, issue 11/1959
  • Lothar Lang: Cheerful art from Max Langer's studio in Das Magazin, issue 06/1974
  • Günter Blutke, Art search, mapping from oil The end of Max Langer in 1946, finishing the NBI community action 31/1979
  • Günter Blutke: Langer's Pictures in Sibylle , No. 3, 1980
  • Helmut Voigt, Experienced and designed 1945/1985, 40 years of artistic creation in the Löbau and Zittau districts , images by Max Langer: on the title page, page 2, and Lausitzer Lebensbaum on page 46
  • Gerhard Schöne, Kinder-Lieder-Galerie , pictures by Max Langer on page 23 ( The neighbor girl Ingrid ) and on page 37 ( The ninety year old Benjamin Frölich ), Lied der Zeit, Musikverlag, Berlin, 1990
  • Helmut Voigt: A painter poet of Upper Lusatia in: Family calendar book for the year 1997, Upper Lusatia publishing house. 1996
  • To the point: In search of Max Langer's work - an odyssey in Thuringian State Newspaper, May 25, 1996, page 2
  • Michael Olshausen: Ami sees through the Hinterglass scene, folklore museum seals itself off in Thuringian national newspaper, May 25, 1996, page 2
  • Michael Olshausen: Max Langer, a German master , lecture at the German embassy in Washington, November 17, 1998, invited by Heinz Ulrich Seidt, then director of the cultural department, since September 2009 Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Seoul, South Korea
  • Michael Olshausen: The Preservation of Fragility as Not-Tyranny: United Germany's Max Langer in: Die Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, Deutscher Kunstverlag GmbH Munchen Berlin. No. 4, 1999

Video

  • A-Labns-Boom , a film on television in the GDR, produced in DEFA-Studio für Trickfilme , Dresden, broadcast on December 1, 1980. Property of the Deutsches Rundfunk Archiv Berlin, Fi-Nr. FP 7439, length 28'19 "
  • I brought something home , a film on television in the GDR, property of the German Broadcasting Archive Berlin. Broadcast from September 1, 1988, VBA 73440, length 29'04 "

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personal data
SURNAME Langer, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Spitzkunnersdorf
DATE OF DEATH May 3, 1985
Place of death Niederoderwitz