Max Mayrshofer
Max Mayrshofer (born April 4, 1875 in Munich ; † December 9, 1950 there ) was a Munich painter and graphic artist .
Life
Max Mayrshofer was born the son of a baker in Munich. He began his artistic training there in 1890 at the arts and crafts school. From 1908 he studied at the Munich Academy with Seitz and Marr and at Anton Ažbe's private school . He was soon accepted as a graphic artist in the editorial offices of “ Jugend ”, “ Simplicissimus ” and “ Hyperion ”. From 1919 he continuously led the evening act at the academy. In 1925 he was appointed professor. He lived all his life in Munich, where he died on December 9, 1950.
plant
Mayrshofer mainly painted still lifes, landscapes and portraits.
His drawings of grimacing, violently gesticulating people, which he made during a visit to an insane asylum, were exhibited in the Miethke Gallery in Vienna in 1908 , where Egon Schiele later exhibited. Christian Bauer, curator at the Schiele Museum in Tulln, sees Mayrshofer's drawings as the root of Schiele's “expressionist vocabulary of sweeping gestures, grimacing and body tension that goes to the limit”.
literature
- Thomas Röske: Max Mayrshofer - visit to the madhouse . In: Bettina Brand-Claussen, Thomas Röske, Prinzhorn Collection (ed.): Artists in the wrong . Wunderhorn, Heidelberg 2008, ISBN 978-3-88423-306-1 , pp. 166-171
Web links
- Website on Max Mayrshofer
- Max Mayrshofer at eArt.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ unpublished article, quoted in: Nina Schedlmayer: Dandy in der Dunkelkammer . In: profil , issue 31/2014 of July 28, 2014, pp. 80–84
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mayrshofer, Max |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and graphic artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 4, 1875 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 9, 1950 |
| Place of death | Munich |