Max Rossbach

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Max Rossbach (born June 6, 1871 in Leipzig , † November 30, 1948 in Munich ) was a German painter.

Career

Max Rossbach was born the son of a building councilor in Leipzig. After training in applied arts and painting at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe with Gustav Schönleber , he began studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich in January 1894 , where he initially joined Johann Leonhard's class of engravers Raab entered. At the recommendation of the porcelain manufacturer Ferdinand Selle , Rossbach received his first order from the porcelain manufacturer Nymphenburg .

Working china design

  • 1899 Design of a service that was exhibited together with table cutlery designed by Richard Riemerschmid as table decoration at the arts and crafts exhibition in the Glaspalast in Munich. Since Rossbach's first draft was convincing, the porcelain manufacturer entrusted him with another order:
  • To design a dining service in a "practical, simple and elegant form" for the Paris World Exhibition in 1900 . The service presented under the name "MODERN" was very well received at the world exhibition and is still one of the icons of Nymphenburg Art Nouveau today.

Working as a painter

At the end of 1902, Roßbach left the Nymphenburg porcelain manufactory to devote himself exclusively to painting. He was mainly active as an impressionist landscape painter. His favorite scenes include pictures like those painted with quick brushstrokes

  • "Mountain Winter Landscape" or
  • "Watzmann Mittelspitze" from the twenties.

The Lenbachhaus in Munich has the following three pictures:

  • "View of Bolzano"
  • "Landscape near Leutstetten"
  • "Staffelsee"

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Register of the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich
  2. ^ German art and decoration. Vol. V, Darmstadt 1899/1900.
  3. ↑ Munich painters in the 19th century. Vol. 3, Munich 1982, p. 241.
personal data
SURNAME Rossbach, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH June 6, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH November 30, 1948
Place of death Munich