Max Rosenfeld (painter)

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Max Rosenfeld , pseudonyms Mark Risor and Harald Hartmund (born April 5, 1874 in Berlin ; † after 1931), was a German painter from the Düsseldorf School and playwright .

Life

Rosenfeld, son of a Berlin factory owner, grew up in the historic center of Berlin. The contact with Berlin boatmen and their songs gave him a preference for the folk song . After school he began to learn painting. It hit him very hard when his father's business collapsed in 1892 and he died shortly afterwards. Rosenfeld moved to Düsseldorf , where he studied portrait and history painting at the art academy . He continued his studies in Berlin and Dresden . He also studied literature and art history there. He earned his living by giving lessons and occasional artistic work. After traveling through Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the Netherlands, Belgium, France and Italy, he settled in Dresden- Strehlen .

Rosenfeld showed his paintings at exhibitions in the Munich Glass Palace . In 1931 he was represented with copies of Tizian and Rembrandt at the art exhibition of the Munich artists' cooperative .

Stage works (selection)

  • Poetry and the growling stomach , Schwank, 1906
  • Babel , Drama, 1908
  • Sarai , drama, 1909

literature

  • Rosenfeld, Max . In: Franz Brümmer : Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the 19th century to the present . Volume 6, 6th edition, Leipzig 1913, p. 50 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Rosenfeld, Max . In: Herrmann AL Degener : Our contemporaries. Who is it 9th edition, Berlin 1928, p. 1294.
  • Rosenfeld, Max . In: Salomon Wininger : Great Jewish National Biography . Volume 5: Pereira stone house . Tschernowitz 1931, p. 239 ( digitized version ).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Museum Kunstpalast : Artists from the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016, PDF )
  2. ↑ Münchner Künstlergenossenschaft (Ed.): Munich Art Exhibition 1931 in the Munich Glass Palace . Catalog, Munich 1931, p. 81, nos. 2718 f. ( Digitized version )
personal data
SURNAME Rosenfeld, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Risor, Mark (pseudonym); Hartmund, Harald (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and playwright
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH after 1931