Max saver

Max Sparer (born July 6, 1886 in Tramin , † January 29, 1968 in Montiggl , Eppan ) was a South Tyrolean painter and graphic artist. In his works he mainly depicted Tyrolean landscapes and the farmers at work.

Career

The Schlössl on the Great Montiggler Lake, where Sparer spent the last years of his life

After his training in the teacher training institute and the grammar school in Bolzano , he attended some art courses. In 1926 he was represented with his works for the first time at the Third Art Biennial of the Tridentine Veneto in Bolzano, as well as in 1938 and 1940 at the fascist syndicate exhibitions in Bolzano. In 1939 he designed the title page of a calendar intended for the Bolzano army command with the motif of the victory memorial . At the age of 45 he retired to the Schlössl on the Großer Montiggler See , where he died impoverished in 1968.

Exhibitions

• 1927: 5th art exhibition in Padua
• 1928: Biennale di Venezia in Venice
• 1930: Taxihof Gallery, Innsbruck
• 1930: International Art Exhibition, Budapest
• 1932: Venice Biennale
• 1932: Art Biennale in Bolzano
• 1938: Exhibition of South Tyrolean and Trentino artists in Rome

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Carl Kraus , Hannes Obermair (ed.): Myths of dictatorships. Art in Fascism and National Socialism - Miti delle dittature. Art nel fascismo e nazionalsocialismo . South Tyrolean State Museum for Cultural and State History Castle Tyrol, Dorf Tirol 2019, ISBN 978-88-95523-16-3 , p. 110 (with ill.) .
2. ^ Exhibition catalog Galleria di Roma. Mostra degli artisti altoatesini e tridentini, 12–27 November a. XVII (= 1938), p. 23.

literature

• Eva Gratl, Margit Oberhammer: The painter and graphic artist Max Sparer (= monographs of South Tyrolean artists, 22). Athesia, Bozen 1993, ISBN 88-7014-724-X

Web links

• Max Sparer on farbholzschnitt.at
• Literature by and about Max Sparer in the catalog of the German National Library