Max Schoop

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Max Schoop in front of the easel, 1957.

Max Schoop (born February 13, 1902 in Zurich , † November 29, 1984 in Van Nuys , Los Angeles ) was a Swiss painter and graphic artist.

He worked in Zurich, Lugano and Hamburg as an employed graphic artist and as a freelance painter. In 1940 he emigrated to Los Angeles, where he continued to work as a painter and managed a farm with his wife Trude Berliner to earn a living .

Live and act

origin

Max Schoop was born on February 13, 1902 in Zurich as the eldest child of Friedrich Maximilian Schoop (1871–1924) and Emma Olga Schoop. Böppli (1873–1959) born. On his father's side, Max came from a family of scholars, professors and teachers, his grandfather Ulrich Schoop (1830–1911) was a teacher at the applied arts school in Zurich . Max's father was an editor, among others at the Zürcher Post , and President of the Grand Hotel Dolder and, as Paul's sister Trudi reports, a respected and valued man in Zurich's intellectual circles. Max's free-thinking and unconventional mother came from " Toggenburg ischen miracle doctors" and was a warm-hearted woman with an insatiable thirst for freedom and life. The family lived on the Zürichberg .

Max was the oldest of four children. His younger siblings were the dancer Trudi Schoop (1903–1999), the cabaret artist and sculptor Hedi Schoop (1906–1995) and the composer Paul Schoop (1909–1976). The children were raised in a free and informal atmosphere, and the parents encouraged their children's artistic development, all of whom took up artistic professions.

education

In 1918/1919 Max Schoop studied painting and drawing at the Zurich School of Applied Arts , where his grandfather Ulrich Schoop also taught. The Swiss painter Willy Hummel , who was close to French Impressionism and who for Max Schoop became "a cultivated guide to the world of colors", was also a teacher at the School of Applied Arts . He continued his studies with the lithographer Johann Edwin Wolfensberger in the graphic institute Wolfensberger in Zurich and in 1921/1922 at the art academy in Karlsruhe.

Working life

Europe

From 1923 to 1928 Max Schoop was employed as an advertising artist in Zurich. From 1928 he worked as a painter in Lugano , then for five years in Hamburg. During this time he painted pictures in the style of Frans Masereel and George Grosz on the North Sea . In 1936 Schoop returned to Zurich, where in 1937 he took part in a collective exhibition in the "Galerie Aktuaryus". In the early 1930s he designed the costumes for the pantomime Fridolin , invented and danced by his sister Trudi Schoop , with which she won second prize in a choreography competition in Paris as a newcomer in 1932.

United States

emigration
Californian mountain impression, color painting by Max Schoop

In 1933 Max's sister Hedi Schoop fled Germany with her Jewish husband Friedrich Hollaender and emigrated to the USA. Her mother and her brothers Max and Paul followed her into “voluntary emigration” around 1939 (as Swiss citizens, they were not endangered by the National Socialists), so that the “family who held together like a burr” reunited almost completely in Los Angeles in 1940 at the latest (Trudi Schoop only rejoined the family after the death of her husband in 1951). At the time of the 1940 census, the mother and her two unmarried sons Max and Paul lived together in a rented apartment in Los Angeles at 8764 Lookout Mountain Drive, in the Hollywood Hills .

painting

The Swiss writer Carl Seelig wrote of Max Schoop's artistic work in California in 1958 : «The United States ... he tries to shape the United States in a very unpathetic manner and with fresh eyes - not as a European, but as one who is deeply connected to nature, but the collapse of the Civilization phenomena of undeniable artists of our time. He contrasts the hard stone cities with their naked neon lights and speeding highways with equally hard landscapes. He wants to be and is a portraitist of reality. "

Earning a living

In the 1940s Max Schoop married the actress and cabaret artist Trude Berliner (1903–1977). It is not known whether the marriage resulted in children. To secure subsistence, Trude Berliner worked temporarily as a ceramic painter in the factory of Hedi Schoop, one of her husband's two sisters, who had lived in Los Angeles since 1934. In the 1950s, Max Schoop and his wife ran the Dos Parlmas Ranch , the cotton and date palm farm of actor Ray Morgan, which was in the California desert near San Diego near the Mexican border, for nine years .

Retirement

Max Schoop's wife died in 1977 at the age of 73. He survived her by seven years and died on November 29, 1984 at the age of 82 in Van Nuys , Los Angeles . He was cremated as requested, there is no grave.

literature

life and work

  • Carl Seelig : Original characters from the Schoop family. In: Thurgauer Jahrbuch , 33rd year, 1958, page 106 (photo), 109–110. ( e-periodica )
  • Schoop, Max (1902) . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 4 : Q-U . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1958, p. 215 .

swell

  • Bruno Oetterli: The two lives of Trudi Schoop. In: Music, Dance and Art Therapy , Volume 20, 2009, pages 162–164.
  • Trudi Schoop ; Peggy Mitchell; Hedi Schoop (illustration): Won't you join the dance? A dancer's essay into the treatment of psychosis. Palo Alto, Calif. 1974 Excerpt: .
  • Trudi Schoop ; Peggy Mitchell; Hedi Schoop (illustration); Marigna Gerig (translation): Come and dance with me! : come, come on, come on, come on, come and dance with me !; an attempt to help the psychotic person through the elements of dance. Zurich 2006, excerpt . - German translation of #Schoop 1974 .
  • Karl Toepfer: Empire of Ecstasy: Nudity and Movement in German Body Culture, 1910-1935. Berkeley 1997. pp. 199-200, online .

Web links

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

Footnotes

  1. ↑ #Oetterli 2009 , page 162.
  2. ↑ Friedrich Maximilian Schoop's brothers Max Ulrich Schoop and Paul Schoop were well-known technicians and inventors. Max Ulrich Schoop's son was the sculptor Uli Schoop .
  3. ↑ #Schoop 1974 , #Seelig 1958 , page 100.
  4. ↑ #Schoop 1974 .
  5. ↑ #Seelig 1958 , page 110.
  6. ^ Christian Baertschi: Johann Edwin Wolfensberger. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . November 20, 2013 , accessed July 8, 2019 .
  7. ↑ #Vollmer 1958.1 , #Seelig 1958 , page 110.
  8. ↑ #Seelig 1958 , page 110.
  9. ↑ #Toepfer 1997 , page 200.
  10. ↑ #Seelig 1958 , page 101.
  11. ↑ ancestry.com .
  12. ↑ #Seelig 1958 , page 110.
  13. ↑ #Seelig 1958 , page 110.
  14. ^ Find a Grave .
personal data
SURNAME Schoop, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH November 29, 1984
Place of death Van Nuys