Max Mertz

Max Mertz (born January 13, 1912 in Homburg , † July 25, 1981 in Saarbrücken ) was a German graphic artist and painter.

Vita

From 1928 to 1931 he attended the 1924 newly founded art and trade school in Saarbrücken, where he trained as a painter and graphic artist. Until 1936 he was professionally active in this area. From 1936 to 1939 he studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden under Professors Wilhelm Rudolph and Karl Albiker , a student of Auguste Rodin . Between 1940 and 1945 he did his military service, after the end of the war he was taken prisoner by the Soviets.

In 1947 he moved to Homburg, his hometown. A scholarship from the Saarland Minister of Education enabled him to study at the French art academy " Académie de la Grande Chaumière " ( Paris ) from 1949 to 1950 . In 1953 he joined the Darmstadt Secession as a member. 1956 worked for a short time as a teacher for art at a school in Saarland.

Honors / awards

• 1961 Albert Weisgerber Prize for Fine Arts , art prize awarded every three years by the Saarland city of St. Ingbert
• 1968 Saarland Art Prize , the most important Saarland culture prize
• 1979 Guest of Honor at Villa Massimo , Rome
• 1980 Guest of Honor at Villa Massimo , Rome

literature

• Max Mertz - recipient of the Albert Weisgerber Prize of the City of St. Ingbert for Fine Arts in 1961. [Exhibition in the Kulturhaus St. Ingbert from May 9 to June 11, 1962]. Arr .: Peter Volkelt. St. Ingbert: Selbstverlag der Stadt, 1962. 31 p., Numerous. Ill.
• Max Mertz. Paintings, objects, graphics. Kaiserslautern: Pfalzgalerie, 1967. 24 p., Numerous. Fig. U. .Taf.
• Max Mertz - Carl Jacob Burckhardt - Max Rychner: Letters 1926 - 1965. Ed .: Claudia Mertz-Rychner. Frankfurt / M .: Fischer, 1970. 324 pp.
• Max Mertz 1912 - 1981. [exhibition catalog]. Saarbrücken: Saarland-Museum, 1985. 116 p. With many partly colored illustrations.
• Max Mertz - the experiment with the picture figure. [Exhibition by the city of St. Ingbert in the Kulturhaus from May 20 to July 10, 1988]. Editor: Meinrad Maria Grewenig. Dillingen: Krüger, 1988. 47 p., Numerous. Ill.
• Max Mertz. Image architectures. [Exhibition in the museum in the Mia-Münster-Haus 9 February to 18 March 1990]. With contributions from Meinrad Maria Grewenig, Cornelieke Lagerwaard, Eike Oertel-Mascioni. Dillingen: Krüger, 1990. 48 p., Numerous. Ill.
• Max Mertz: Figure and Space. [Exhibition November 19, 2005 to January 15, 2006] Ed .: Ralph Melcher. Arranged: Eva Leistenschneider. Saarbrücken: self-rel. d. Saarlandmuseums, 2005. 64 p., Overw. Ill. ISBN 3-938381-07-8

Web links

• Literature by and about Max Mertz in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature on Max Mertz in the Saarland Bibliography
• Entry in the Saar lexicon of artists