Max Metzger (teacher)

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Max Metzger (portrait drawing by Emil Stumpp , 1926)

Max Metzger (born August 17, 1866 in Karlsruhe , † July 1, 1941 in Kahlberg ) was a German architect , vocational school teacher, art historian and novelist.

Life

Metzger was trained at the building trade school in Karlsruhe and, after a short period of work in an architectural office in Freiburg, came to Lübeck at the age of 22, where he had worked as a teacher at the trade school since October 1, 1888. In Lübeck he was included by the curator Theodor Hach in the beginning systematic recording of the city's cultural assets. In 1889, for example, Metzger created the drawings for the panel part of the Hach script about the beginnings of the Renaissance in Lübeck with numerous details from works of art in churches and museums. During this collaboration, he met the photographer Johannes Nöhring , who prepared a collotype for Hach for this work. As an architecture photographer, Nöhring also made a name for himself in the comprehensive documentation of Lübeck architecture. To a large extent, his works illustrate the architectural and art monuments of Lübeck published by the building deputation and published by Nöhring's art publisher . Before the First World War, Max Metzger, with Nöhring's support, published the so-called butcher's folder with 424 illustrations on 120 panels and a further 83 illustrations in the text section, which in particular documents the bourgeois secular buildings of the city according to topic and is still an important tool for building research and monument preservation today is.

Trade school in Lübeck, built in 1926 under Metzger's directorate

On September 17, 1913, the Senate of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck awarded him the title of professor as a specialist teacher at the commercial and building trade school. He held the office of deputy director for several years and played a major role in the constant improvement and professionalization of the school. He was responsible for the merger of the crafts school, building trade school and agricultural winter school. Under him, the school became a compulsory school for commercial apprentices, and the lessons were no longer just voluntary courses that took place in the evenings or on the weekends. After the First World War, the school was divided into a building trade school and a trade school. Metzger initially got the post as provisional director of the trade school, with effect from October 1, 1920 he became director of this school. He also continued his successful school policy as director. In 1926, the school received a new brick building designed by Friedrich Wilhelm Virck with plastic elements by Richard Kuöhl , which accommodated up to 3,600 students who were looked after by 95 teachers under Metzger's direction. It still exists today as the Emil Possehl School, named after the Lübeck entrepreneur and patron Emil Possehl in Lübeck's old town .

As a part-time curator , Metzger was in charge of the trade museum run by the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities from 1894 to 1910 , which was transferred to the newly founded Museum of Art and Cultural History in the former St. Anne's Monastery in 1915 . In 1897 he was the founder and chairman of the arts and crafts association.

Metzger published several professional books on art locksmithing and cabinet making as well as wood carving, but also some novels, such as Der Gangbutscher in 1918, a folk novel that is still reprinted today and set in the milieu of Lübeck's corridors and courtyards .

Max Metzger was married on November 15, 1893 to the pharmacist's daughter Charlotte Gertrude Böhrig (born June 14, 1874 - October 16, 1965) from Danzig, with whom he initially lived at 36 Dorotheenstrasse, before moving to the house in Sophienstrasse in 1897 24 could be obtained. The marriage resulted in four children: Maria Pauline Gertrud (* September 8, 1894; † July 31, 1992), Käthe Anna Else (* February 27, 1896; † 1972), Max Otto (* July 18, 1899; † 14 October 1914) and Charlotte Emilie Mathilde (born September 15, 1903, † January 19, 1978). The latter made him the father-in-law of the Lübeck writer Julius Havemann, who was almost the same age in 1927 . Max Metzger died in 1941 while on vacation at the Fresh Spit .

Works

drawings

  • Illustrations in Theodor Hach : The beginnings of the Renaissance in Lübeck. 1889

Specialist literature

  • Back to nature! A compilation and a suggestion for the practical use of the most varied of voices on the influence of an ornamental study of nature in commercial and arts and crafts schools. Minden & Wolters, Dresden 1891
  • Handbook of wood carving. For use by wood sculptors and carpenters, commercial and arts and crafts schools, architects and pattern makers as well as for amateurs , 2 volumes (64 pages of text, atlas with 8 panels). Verlag von Bernhard Friedrich Voigt, Weimar and Leipzig 1892 (reprint of the 2nd edition 1919: Verlag Th. Schäfer, Hannover 1986)
  • Construction work of the art and building fitter. Wolfrum, Düsseldorf 1896
  • Brief style teaching for art locksmiths , 112 pages. Published by Charles Coleman, Lübeck 1898 (Reprint: Reprint Verlag Leipzig 2001)
  • Lübeck stove tiles from the Renaissance period . In: The Museum of Lübeck. Festschrift to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the collections of the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities 1800–1900 , ed. from the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities , Lübeck 1900, pp. 123–152.
  • Modern wrought-iron shop window constructions / executed designs by competent specialists collected and edited. v. Max Metzger. Coleman, Lübeck [1904]
  • The art locksmith. A representation of the entire practice of modern art locksmithing , 496 pages with 600 illustrations. Verlag von Charles Coleman, Lübeck 1908 (Reprint 4th edition 1927: Verlag Th. Schäfer, Hannover 1996)
  • Lübeck's old secular architecture , 424 illustrations on 120 plates and 36 pages of text. Published by Charles Coleman Lübeck, undated (1911)

Works of fiction

  • The gang boss. A folk novel , 307 pages. Verlag Max Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1918 (new edition by Verlag Weiland, Lübeck 1961 and 2003)
  • Irrwege , 372 pages. Oldenburg & Co. Verlag, Berlin / Leipzig 1919
  • From the talent angle , 520 pages. Richard Hermes Verlag, Hamburg 1922

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. a b Lübeckische Blätter 1941, p. 331
  2. Lübecker Volksbote from August 15, 1936, p. 15
  3. a b c Lübeckische Blätter 1928, p. 653
  4. ^ Theodor Hach: The beginnings of the Renaissance in Lübeck. 1889.
  5. Gustav Schaumann, Friedrich Bruns (editor): The architectural and art monuments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck. Volume 2, part 2: The Marienkirche. Nöhring, Lübeck 1906.
  6. Gustav Lindtke: Old Luebeck city views. Lübeck 1968, p. 10. (= Lübecker Museumhefte , issue 7.)
  7. Lübeckische Blätter 1914, p. 21
  8. a b Lübecker Volksbote from August 15, 1936, p. 16
  9. ^ History of the EPS
  10. ^ Royal Museums in Berlin (ed.): Art Handbook for Germany. Directory of authorities, collections, educational establishments and associations for art, applied arts and antiquity. Berlin 1904, p. 221
  11. ^ H. Schröder: On the history of the Luebian museums 1800-1934. In: Contributions to the history of the society for the promotion of charitable activities , year 1939, p. 31 f.
  12. Lübeckische Blätter 1897, p. 571, p. 576, p. 596.