Max Oehler (painter)

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Max Oehler (born September 14, 1881 in Eisenach , † September 17, 1943 in Weimar ) was a Thuringian painter who created numerous landscape pictures and views of historical buildings.

Life

Max Oehler was born in Eisenach in 1881. He died in Weimar in 1943. The painter Max Oehler should not be confused with the archivist of the same name at the Nietzsche Archive , who also worked in Weimar.

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More than 700 works by Oehler, mainly oil paintings and ink drawings, are known today. However, it is estimated that he created around 2000 artistic works. Oehler was particularly committed to the genre of landscape painting. He received his training at the Grand Ducal Saxon Art School Weimar a . a. in the master class of Prof. Hans Olde .

  • Birch landscape, oil painting, private property, 110 × 80 cm.
  • Blankenhain, around 1920, oil painting, private collection, 100 × 80 cm.
  • View of the Kreuzburg near Eisenach in autumn, oil painting, private property, 37.5 × 47 cm.
  • View of Zella-Mehlis, oil painting, private property, 70 × 50 cm.
  • Bodehaus in Weimar in winter, oil painting, private property, 50 × 70 cm.
  • Goethe's summer garden house, oil painting, private property, 45 × 38 cm.
  • Good comrade, 1938, ink drawing, private collection.
  • Jena-Saalestrand - View of the Jenzig, 1937, oil painting, private property, 53 × 37 cm.
  • Kornfeld, oil painting, private property, 90 × 65 cm.
  • Reinhardsbrunn, ink drawing, private collection, 21 × 17 cm.
  • Saxon Switzerland, oil painting, private collection, 40 × 35 cm.
  • Sunlight in the Forest, 1920, oil painting, private collection, 115.6 × 110.5 cm.
  • Thuringian Forest, oil painting, private property, 35 × 30 cm.
  • Winter Park in Weimar, oil painting, private property, 69 × 55.5 cm.

literature

  • Jens M. Plaul: Max Oehler. In the footsteps of a landscape painter who succeeded the Weimar School of Painting. Working group City History Blankenhain. 2nd edition 2009. ISBN 978-3-00-004335-2
  • Max Oehler in Blankenhain. In: Thüringer Landeszeitung from February 8, 2011
  • Exhibition with pictures by Max Oehler in the Ilmkreis Center. In: Ostthüringer Zeitung from August 18, 2010

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personal data
SURNAME Oehler, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Thuringian painter
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Eisenach
DATE OF DEATH September 17, 1943
Place of death Weimar