Max Pfaller

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Max Pfaller (* 1937 in Munich ) is a German painter .

Self-portrait Max Pfaller (2017)

Life

After a commercial apprenticeship (1953 to 1956), he studied from 1957 to 1963 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Professor Wilhelm Heise and Professor Erich Glette . Since 1964 he has been working as a freelance artist in Munich .

Works by Max Pfaller can be found in numerous private and public collections around the world. Among other things, the Bavarian State Painting Collection and the MVG Museum of the Münchner Verkehrsgesellschaft owns works by him.

Artistic creation

Regensburg Cathedral

Max Pfaller's pictures develop their own, autonomous imagery that is based on the visible world. The pictures are descriptions of our time, but at the same time timeless. They are interpretations and testimony to the conflict between man and nature. So lives z. B. the green, Lower Bavarian landscape in a supernatural form, the city tangle shows up, houses on cars are reflected in the composition, etc. Reflections are an important design element. The automobile, human encounters with the world of art, abandoned industrial plants and the precise representation of fashionable attributes also play a central role in Max Pfaller's pictures. Subtle changes are hidden in the apparent realism. Perspectives are shifted slightly and depth effects changed. An unreality turns into an over-reality: the asphalt of the streets, railroad tracks in the abandoned train station, walls with traces of earlier lettering, etc. a.

Max Pfaller works with different techniques: Acrylic resin paint and watercolor on different surfaces: wood, canvas, hardboard, cardboard, paper. In addition, he also deals with drawing and lithography.

  • Forgotten light

  • Lonely Mercedes

  • Isar bank

  • Steel mill in Hattingen

  • Striped cyclist

  • Three women

  • Surprised by the tide

Awards

Solo exhibitions

  • 1995: Association of Art and Culture, Hohenaschau office building
  • 2003: Gallery of the Bayerische Landesbank Munich
  • 2009: Gallery in the Hans Reiffenstuel House, Pfarrkirchen
  • 2012: Gallery "Villa Maria", Bad Aibling ( Reality - almost real )
  • 2012: Galerie Neubauer, Munich
  • 2019: Gallery “Villa Maria”, Bad Aibling

Participation in exhibitions

Memberships

  • 1976 to 2009: Member of the exhibition management at the Great Art Exhibition in Munich , Haus der Kunst München eV
  • 1973 to 2011: Member and juror of the Munich Secession
  • since 2012: Member of the Munich Artist Support Association, President since 2017

literature

  • Franz Spelmann: Max Pfaller , in: Hans Kießling: Painter of the Munich art scene 1955–1982 . EOS Verlag 1982. ISBN 3880961751 , pp. 488-493.
  • Jochen Meister: Munich Secession , past and present. Prestel 2008, p. 176.

Image publications

In books
  • since 1970 catalogs Haus der Kunst, Munich
  • Culture & Technology: The magazine from the Deutsches Museum . Issue 1/1979. Paperback 1979 (on title page picture Endangered Tree , 1975)
  • ADAC: Car in Art . ADAC publishing house 1979.
  • Jürgen (preface), Kolbe (author): Lothringer Str. 13 - Art in Haidhausen . Lerchenmüller Verlag 1983.
  • Marie-Louise Plessen (Ed.): The Isar, a curriculum vitae . Exhibition catalog in the Münchner Stadtmuseum 1983. Hugendubel Verlag 1987. ISBN 3880341982 (participation in the exhibition, reproduction of the picture Isar and Isar Canal 1979).
  • Heinrich Krohn: What a pleasure traveling gives! Prestel 1987. ISBN 3791316893 (therein a reprint of the picture: The route keeper )
  • ADAC: tracks . ADAC publishing house 1992.
  • Max Pfaller: painting . Catalog for the exhibition September 15 to November 5, 1995. Art and culture 1995.
  • Susanne Bäumler: The art of advertising. The century of advertising . Exhibition catalog. Dumont 1996. (Participation in the exhibition)
  • Horst G. Ludwig: From the Blue Rider to freshly painted. Painting in Munich in the 20th century . Hugendubel 1997. ISBN 3880349703 .
  • Bernhard Setzwein: On the banks of the Isar. A Bavarian river and its history . Koehler and Amelang 1999. ISBN 3733801741 (reprint of the picture Isar and Isarkanal 1979).
In magazines (selection)
  • Culture and technology. Journal of the Deutsches Museum 1/1979.
  • Ullstein's Gourmet , 9/1980.
  • TransAtlantik , 11/1980.
  • Münchner Theaterzeitung , issue 3/1986.
  • Blickpunkt DB , 3/1987.
  • Deutsche Bundesbahn: The beautiful world . Issue June / 1987.
  • Munich mosaic , July / August 1989.
  • Deutsche Lufthansa: Logbook , issue 2/1993.
  • Munich Mosaic , issue 3/1995.
  • Medicine and Art , issue 4/1997.
  • Applause Kulturmagazin , 7/8 2003.

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personal data
SURNAME Pfaller, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich