Max Raffler

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Max Raffler (born October 8, 1902 in Greifenberg am Ammersee , † 1988 ibid.) Was a German painter. His work can be assigned to naive art .

Life

The farmer Max Raffler was already over 60 years old when he was discovered as a naive painter by a country doctor and his friend Toni Roth (1899–1971), a former lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . Roth became his supervisor and sponsor. When he was persuaded, Raffler exhibited works for the first time, in the Munich Art Association . Roth also brought out an art calendar with Raffler's landscapes in 1966. In the same year, at Roth's insistence, Raffler, along with 3,647 other amateur painters, took part in an international competition "The Sunday Painter and His Most Beautiful Picture" organized by the Albert Dorne Foundation together with a German weekly magazine in Amsterdam and was awarded the 2nd prize. The autodidact became known far beyond the borders of his Upper Bavarian homeland. Exhibitions in Amsterdam, Hamburg, Frankfurt am Main and Recklinghausen followed; his pictures were included in calendars and illustrated books. Several cultural films have been made about him.

What Raffler painted before his discovery has been thrown away "as evidence of the washing basket"; only a few works, painted on different surfaces such as cut-to-size artificial fertilizer and cement sacks or the back of calendars and forms, have survived from the years before 1966. He often did watercolors , but also worked with colored pencils and wax crayons. His talent for picture compositions was considered unusual.

Quotes about his work

"Like all genuinely naive people, Raffler paints what he has a personal relationship with: the things that surround him, that are important for his life - these can be everyday objects, rural implements, work and customs, festivals and processions, biblical stories , the landscape in which he lives, flowers and meadow herbs, animals on the farm and in nature. In all of these pictures, a quiet power of observation, a deep connection with what is represented and the ability to give shape to things and events with a fine sense of color in the long term in the painted picture is expressed. "

- Elke Zimmer : Gallery room

“Even in old age he was a painter; Gallery owners drove the prices for his paintings to breathtaking heights, and Raffler painted from the catalog and took orders. Despite his exhaustive oeuvre, the pictures radiate authenticity to this day. "

- deutschland-reise.de

Memorial exhibitions

On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of his death, the Buchheim Museum of Fantasy in Bernried on Lake Starnberg organized a cabinet exhibition in autumn 2008 under the title “Max Raffler, the painting farmer from Lake Ammersee”. In the same year a memorial exhibition "Max Raffler, Painter and Farmer" followed in the New City Museum Landsberg am Lech .

literature

  • Mathilde Köhler: The painting farmer from the Ammersee. ( Memento from July 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) In: Abendblatt from July 30, 1965.
  • Max Raffler. The painter with a pure heart. In: FA Europe. 1 (1968), No. 3, pp. 22-26
  • Toni Roth: Max Raffler. The farmer and painter from the Ammersee. Munich: Moos, undated (1969). 48 p. With 38 illustrations
  • Hanns Hubmann : Naive painter. Garden of dreams. Garden of dreams. Jardin des reves. Munich: F. Bruckmann, 1973. 91 pp., ISBN 3765415464
  • Edgar Harvolk on Raffler . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of October 14, 1977
  • Heinrich Winterholler: Picture Bible of the peasant painter Max Raffler . 1977. ISBN 3880960321
  • Heinrich Winterholler: Marien praise of the peasant painter Max Raffler. St. Ottilien: EOS-Verlag 1978. 72 p.
  • Clelia Segieth: Max Raffler, the painting farmer from Ammersee. (Brochure of the Buchheim Museum of Fantasy), 2008, illustrated. See [1]
  • Hed Wimmer: The peasant painter Max Raffler. Freiburg i. Breisgau 1980
  • Hed Wimmer (Ed.): Max Raffler paints Grimm fairy tales. 14 fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm. Freiburg im Breisgau 1980. ISBN 3530674516 , ISBN 9783530674514
  • Max Raffler's cat book. Carl Hanser Verlag 1982, 48 pp.
  • Hartfrid Neunzert: Max Raffler. Farmer and painter. Landsberg am Lech: Neues Stadtmuseum 2008, 35 pages with illustrations

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Max Raffler / Germany Greifenberg 1902 - 1988 . galzim.de. Archived from the original on March 26, 2011. Retrieved September 8, 2019.
  2. ^ Museum Zander (Bönnigheim) . deutschland-reise.de. Archived from the original on April 19, 2016. Retrieved September 8, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Raffler, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH October 8, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Greifenberg am Ammersee
DATE OF DEATH 1988
Place of death Greifenberg