Max Lindh
Max Lindh (born June 1, 1890 in Königsberg i. Pr. , † January 14, 1971 in Berlin ) was a German landscape painter and university lecturer.
Life
Initially a draftsman at the land surveying office in Königsberg, Lindh attended art and trade school (1917/18). From 1919 to 1924 he was a student of Arthur Degner at the Königsberg Art Academy . After working as a freelance painter from 1924 to 1930, he served as an art teacher for four years. In 1934 he went to the art academy as a lecturer in art education, which in 1937 appointed him professor.
After the expulsion from East Prussia , he was appointed professor for art education by the University of Rostock in 1946 . He was director of the Institute for Art Education and head of the university's studio. 1955 emeritus , he moved in 1961 to West Berlin , where he lived until his death. Max Lindh created oil paintings, watercolors and drawings. His work is also represented in the Ostdeutsche Galerie art forum . Two years before his death he painted the Wachtbudenberg on the Samland coast from memory .
Publications
- Contemporary painting and youth (1948)
- Painter of rural life (1948)
- About the painting style of our masters (1954) - with the participation of the Rostock painter Heinrich Engel
- Contribution to the regularity of the simple pictorial shape (1956)
Web links
- Literature by and about Max Lindh in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature about Max Lindh in the state bibliography MV
- Lindh, Max . In: East German Biography (Kulturportal West-Ost)
- Entry on Max Lindh in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium
Individual evidence
- ^ Robert Albinus: Königsberg Lexicon . Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-88189-441-1
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lindh, Max |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German landscape painter and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 1, 1890 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Koenigsberg i. Pr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 14, 1971 |
| Place of death | Berlin |