Max Seliger
Max Seliger (born May 12, 1865 in Bublitz , West Pomerania ; † May 10, 1920 in Leipzig ) was a German painter , craftsman and director of the Royal Academy of Graphic Arts and Book Industry in Leipzig.
Life
Max Seliger attended the Royal Art School in Berlin and the teaching institution of the Museum of Applied Arts in Berlin and was a student of Emil Doepler and Max Friedrich Koch , among others . From 1894 he taught at the latter educational institution himself.
In 1901 he became director of the Royal Academy for Graphic Arts and Book Trade in Leipzig. He undertook a reorientation of this institution, placing the workshop of the artist in the foreground. In 1914 he founded the Leipzig exhibition for book trade and graphics .
Seliger mainly created monumental wall paintings, glass paintings and mosaics for numerous public buildings, including the Reichstag building and the Golgotha Church in the Oranienburger Vorstadt in Berlin, as well as for the entrance hall of the Deutsche Bücherei Leipzig .
In literary terms, he appeared through articles on the book trade and contemporary art movements in numerous art and specialist magazines and through various monographs .
Max Seliger was a member of the German Association of Artists .
Awards
- 1893 Medal in Fine Arts, Chicago World's Fair
- 1893 Medal in Liberal Arts, Chicago World's Fair
- 1900 Silver medal from the building exhibition, Dresden
- 1901 Gold medal of the stained glass exhibition
- 1904 Gold Medal at the St. Louis World's Fair
- 1910 Grand Prix, Brussels World Exhibition
literature
- Blessed, Max . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 30 : Scheffel – Siemerding . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1936, p. 477 .
- Blessed, Max . In: Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia (DBE) . 2., revised. and extended edition. tape 9 : Schlumberger – Thiersch . De Gruyter / KG Saur, Berlin / Boston / Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-11-096502-5 , p. 392 .
- Julia Blume: Blessed, Max . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 103, de Gruyter, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-11-023269-1 , p. 25.
Individual evidence
- ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Full members of the German Association of Artists since it was founded in 1903 / Seliger, Max ( Memento of the original from February 24, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been 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 February 17, 2016)
Web links
- Literature by and about Max Seliger in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Blessed, Max |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and craftsman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 12, 1865 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bublitz , Western Pomerania |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 10, 1920 |
| Place of death | Leipzig |