Max Schmitz

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Conformation human , Bietigheim-Bissingen
Sculpture od , 1977 Sculpture Park Collection-Domnick-Nürtingen

Max Schmitz (* 1936 in Oberhausen , North Rhine-Westphalia ) is a German sculptor .

life and work

Schmitz studied art history , Egyptology and philosophy at the University of Munich from 1958 to 1959 and attended the Karlsruhe Art Academy from 1959 to 1962 . He studied with Professor Fritz Klemm and Hans Kindermann , among others . In 1963 was assistant to the sculptor Wilhelm Loth . From 1963 to 1965 he studied sculpture with Rudolf Hoflehner at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart and political science with Golo Mann at the Technical University of Stuttgart . From 1965 to 1967 he was assistant to Rudolf Hoflehner.

Schmitz was a member of the German Association of Artists from 1973 and of the Baden-Württemberg Artists Association from 1975 . Since 1984 he has been a member of the artist group Constructive Tendencies and in 1997 he co-founded the group Ataraxia with the artists Ingrid Dahn and David D. Lauer .

The artist lives and works in Leonberg-Warmbronn and La Orotava on Tenerife .

  • Coordinator 1991, Cor-ten-Stahl, 256 cm

  • Coordinator 1994, steel, 79 cm

  • Walk 1998, Cor-ten-Stahl, 90 cm

  • No reason 2005, Cor-ten - stainless steel, 370 cm

  • Apollo Musagete 2002, cor-ten steel, 256 cm

  • Cube en Fleur, steel, 71 cm

  • Phönix 2005-6, stainless steel, 370 cm

  • Florescanda 2002, steel, 660 cm

  • Sublimation 2012–13, steels, 420 cm

Works in the Domnick Collection

The works of Max Schmitz make up a considerable part of the Art Museum Collection Domnick Nürtingen , which the art collector Ottomar Domnick (1907–1989) donated in Nürtingen :

  • Sculptures in the museum building
    • Hammer Head (1963)
    • Head as a weapon (1965)
    • Model Syrinx (1965)
    • Model sculpture OD (Ottomar Domnick) (1977)

literature

  • Dietfried Gerhardus: On sculpture of the present , Bogawus, Forum for Literature, Art and Philosophy (1968)
  • Günther Wirth: Foreword in the catalog of the Max Schmitz exhibition in der Städt. Oberhausen Castle Gallery (1973)
  • Max Bense: The Eye of Epicurus , Stuttgart (1979)
  • Helmut Heißenbüttel (editor): Stuttgart Art in the 20th Century (1979)
  • Günther Wirth: Art in the German Southwest from 1945 to the Present (1982)
  • Ulrich Maubach: Figure and Space , text in the catalog for the Max Schmitz exhibition in the Städtische Galerie Lüdenscheid (1986)
  • Ottomar Domnick: My Way to Sculptures , Stuttgart (1987)
  • Dietfried Gerhardus: Constructive tendencies towards the exhibitions in the Ekhnaton gallery in Cairo and the Landesgirokasse Stuttgart
  • Brigitta Arnoux: Interview text (German and French) on the exhibition Max Schmitz and Ingrid Dahn , Belfort (1993)
  • Barbara Stark, Otto Pannewitz and Kurt Leonhard: Texts in the Max Schmitz exhibition catalog in the Städtische Galerie Sindelfingen (retrospective) (1993)
  • Max Schmitz: Rudolf Hoflehner: An extraordinary man , text in the catalog: Hommage à Rudolf Hoflehner , State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart and Hypobank Stuttgart
  • Andrea Wolter: Max Schmitz, Plastic in the Metteranlagen Bietigheim- Bissingen (1996)
  • Christina Ossowski and Veronika Lensing: Texts in the catalog for the Max Schmitz exhibition in the Schurwaldhalle Aichwald (2000)
  • Günter Wirth: Foreword to the catalog for the Max Schmitz exhibition in the Leonberg Gallery Association (2007)

Some works in public space

  • Coordinator , Cor-ten-Stahl, Essen (publicly accessible private property), 1969–70
  • Major coordinator , Cor-ten-Stahl, Esslingen am Neckar , Park of the Villa Merkel, 1973
  • Human dimension , Cor-ten-Stahl, Ulm Military Hospital , 1977
  • Static coordinator , Cor-ten-Stahl, Sulzfeld (private loan, publicly accessible), 1978
  • Conformation Mensch (1983/85), inner courtyard of Bietigheim Palace in Bietigheim-Bissingen
  • Cube unfolding , Stahl, Leonberg , 1985
  • Figure in Progress , Cor-ten-Stahl, Weingarten , 1987
  • Large coordinate head in an inclined position (1991) - among other things, it was exhibited in an exhibition in Korb and Am Venusberg in Aidlingen (2002)
  • We , Stahl, City of Essen-Borbeck, 1993
  • Metamorphosis Papillon , colored steel, Stuttgart former Westbahnhof (private loan, publicly accessible), 1996
  • Metamorphosis of an angle profile , Stahl, Schwetzingen , (publicly accessible private property), 2000
  • Pax , Stahl und Edelstahl, Nagold-Rohrdorf (publicly accessible private property), 2001
  • XeniaIII , steel, City of Öhringen (loan)
  • Florescanda , colored steel sculpture in the roundabout at the entrance to the city of Leonberg , 2009

Web links

Commons : Max Schmitz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Full members of the Deutscher Künstlerbund since it was founded in 1903 / Schmitz, Max ( Memento of the original from February 24, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on January 25, 2016) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuenstlerbund.de
  2. ↑ City of Korb: Heads at the Korber Kopf (2007-2008) (PDF; 490 kB)
personal data
SURNAME Schmitz, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberhausen