Max Seiz

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Max Seiz (2014)

Max Eugen Seiz (also Max E. Seiz ; born October 12, 1927 in Schwäbisch Gmünd ; † April 6, 2020 there ) was a German sculptor who lived in Schwäbisch Gmünd and worked as a freelance artist since 1954.

Life

From 1942 to 1944 he completed an apprenticeship as a steel engraver at the Gmünder Silberwarenfabrik Erhard & Sons . In 1944 he was first used as a soldier in Czechoslovakia during World War II and was taken prisoner by the US in Belgium in 1944 . After his discharge in 1946 and his return from Virginia , he attended the State Higher Technical School for Precious Metals (now the University of Design ) in Schwäbisch Gmünd from 1946 to 1950 . After graduating, he worked from 1950 to 1952 at WMF in Geislingen an der Steige as a steel engraver. After studying in London from 1953 to 1954, he worked as a freelance artist.

In 1981 he was visiting professor at the Schwäbisch Gmünd University of Design . Since 1983 he has held annual solo exhibitions in the Villa Seiz Gallery in his Art Nouveau villa on the Nepperberg in Schwäbisch Gmünd. There is also a sculpture garden surrounded by sandstone rocks. In addition to sculpture, Seiz also engaged in drawing and painting. As early as 2002, in addition to around 250 sculptures, around 900 drawings, watercolors and paintings had been collected. His children Andrea and Alexander Seiz lived with him.

Seiz's grave is on the Leonhard Cemetery in Gmünd in grave field K.

Exhibitions

gallery

  • Faberbrunnen , 1968, stone relief, place at Salvator in Schwäbisch Gmünd

  • Hope , 1978, bronze, Dreifaltigkeitsfriedhof Schwäbisch Gmünd

  • Unicorn , 1983, bronze, Schwäbisch Gmünd City Garden

  • Drama , 1983, bronze, fountain in the Schwäbisch Gmünd city garden

  • Dialog , 1985, bronze, Heilbronn University

  • Dialog , 1986, bronze, Bahnhofstrasse 4 in Aalen

  • Human bench , 1987, bronze, Schwäbisch Gmünd city garden

  • Eudaemonia , 1988, bronze, Türlensteg 15 in Schwäbisch Gmünd

  • Weaver , 1988, bronze, Postplatz in Heubach

  • The conversation , 1988, bronze, sculpture tour Schorndorf

  • Ecce me - there I am , 2002, bronze, ways to art in Straßdorf

  • Free man , 2005, bronze, Remspark in Schwäbisch Gmünd

  • Max Seiz 'Art Nouveau villa on the Nepperberg in Schwäbisch Gmünd

  • Sculpture garden at Villa Seiz

  • Drawings and watercolors by Max Seiz in the Villa Seiz

Public contracts (selection)

literature

  • Andrea Seiz (Ed.): Max Seiz. Think plastic . Schwäbisch Gmünd, Einhorn-Verlag, 2012, ISBN 978-3-95747-001-0 .
  • Museum im Prediger (ed.): Max Seiz: The human being in the picture: 50 years of painting and sculpture. Max Seiz on his 75th birthday . Schwäbisch Gmünd, Einhorn-Verlag, 2002, ISBN 978-3980729765 .
  • Max E. Seiz: Sculptures . Max E. Seiz, Schwäbisch Gmünd, no year (1992 or a little later).

Web links

Commons : Max Seiz  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The painter and sculptor Max Eugen Seiz died at the age of 92 , article in the Rems newspaper from April 17, 2020.
  2. ^ To the sculptor Max Seiz on his 85th birthday. Report by the Rems newspaper on October 12, 2012.
  3. ↑ a b Max Seiz. Think plastic p. 100
  4. ↑ a b Max Seiz. The person in the picture p. 106
  5. ^ Homepage of Max Seiz . There also a listing of exhibitions and public contracts.
  6. ↑ Max Seiz. The person in the picture p. 8
personal data
SURNAME Seiz, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Seiz, Max Eugen (full name); Seiz, Max E.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwäbisch Gmünd
DATE OF DEATH April 6, 2020
Place of death Schwäbisch Gmünd