Max Michael

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Parenthood - peasant family in their hut, 1864

Max Michael (born March 23, 1823 in Hamburg , † March 24, 1891 in Berlin ; actually Isaac Mayer ) was a German genre painter .

Life

Max Michael attended the Academy in Dresden from 1841 and went to Paris in 1846 , where he became a student of Henri Lehmann and Thomas Couture . At the beginning of the 1850s he moved to Italy and lived in Rome with little interruptions until 1870 .

Michael almost only painted genre pictures from Italian folk and monastic life. His works initially showed major flaws, but gradually became more severe and solid in drawing and modeling, but retained the sketchy coloristic manner and a dull, blurred coloring that he had adopted in France . He preferred to portray the lives of ordinary people, whose living conditions he portrayed without make-up and aptly. Examples of this are girls 'schools in the Sabine Mountains , Neapolitan fishermen and farmers' families in poor housing .

In 1875 Max Michael became a member of the Prussian Academy of the Arts , Berlin. One of his students was the Berlin portrait and landscape painter Felix Borchardt , who immortalized him in his autobiography in 1927 with a portrait drawing. Another student was the Berlin genre and landscape painter Curt Agthe (1862–1943).

tomb

Max Michael was buried in the Jewish cemetery on Schönhauser Allee in 1891.

literature

  • Constantin von Wurzbach : Max, Michael . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 17th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing House, Vienna 1867, p. 169 ( digital copy ).
  • Dr. Hermann Alex. Müller: Biographical artist lexicon . Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1882, p. 369.
  • General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present, founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker, continued by Hans Vollmer et al., Vol. 1–37, Leipzig 1907–1947.
  • The Jewish cemetery at Schönhauser Allee, Berlin. A tour of selected tombs, ed. by the Jewish Community of Berlin, edited by Jörg Kuhn, Fiona Laudamus, Wolfgang Gottschalk and Klaus-Henning von Krosigk, Berlin 2011, p. 49, no. 30 (with a picture of the grave of Max Michael).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Felix Borchardt: Im Siebenmeilenschritt , Berlin 1927; Dagmar Frings and Jörg Kuhn: The Borchardts. In the footsteps of a Berlin family , Berlin 2011, pp. 47 and 135
  2. ^ Rosemarie Köhler and Ulrich Kratz-Whan: Der Jüdische Friedhof Schönhauser Allee, Berlin 1992, p. 140

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personal data
SURNAME Michael, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mayer, Isaac (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1823
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH March 24, 1891
Place of death Berlin