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Max Pickel (born April 11, 1884 in Nuremberg ; † September 24, 1976 in Lauter / Sa. ) Was a German teacher and silhouette artist .

Life

Originally from Franconia , Pickel attended school in Stollberg / Erzgeb. After completing the teachers' seminar in Schneeberg , he became a teacher in Lauter in the Ore Mountains in 1904 . His subjects were drawing, handicrafts and German. From 1945 to 1949 he was the principal of the school there. In 1953, after 50 years of school service, he retired.

In his free time he devoted himself to paper cutting. He left behind numerous artistic paper cuttings, some of which are now in the Erzgebirgisches Eisen und Zinn Museum in Schwarzenberg / Erzgeb. be kept. Best known was his 14-part series on the Heilig-Ohmd-Lied , which was created in 1960 and was published as postcards by the publishing house Bild und Heimat Reichenbach (Vogtl.) In 1978 and was reissued in 1983 due to great demand.

Max Pickel was married to Anna Mathilde Günther (born April 3, 1884, † September 24, 1976 in Lauter / Sa). The two had a daughter Annamarie Pickel, her nickname was Pickel-Mieze (born March 21, 1909 in Lauter / Sa .; † July 21, 2002 as Annemarie Scholze, née Pickel in Kempten / Allgäu).

Works (selection)

• The famous mountain parade on the Schneeberg contest day . Paper cuts by Max Pickel with a poem by Kurt Arnold Findeisen and a professional introduction by Siegfried Sieber , Ebersbach: Oberlausitzer Kunstverlag Christian Schubert (1956).

literature

• Heilig-Ohmd-Lied Erzgebirge Christmas carol, 14 postcards , Reichenbach (Vogtl.), 1978; 2nd edition 1983