Max Treitel

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Max Treitel (born December 17, 1890 in Posen , † after December 14, 1942 in Auschwitz ) was a German painter.

Max Treitel, portrait of a youth. Self-portrait (charcoal drawing).
Prize of Lovis Corinth's class for Max Treitel in recognition of his good work, March 21, 1914. Signed and signed. a. by Max Liebermann, Lovis Corinth, Arthur Lewin-Funcke and Martin Brandenburg (study studio for painting and sculpture, Berlin-Charlottenburg)

Life

Treitel came from a very poor Jewish family, in which he, fatherless at an early age, grew up with his mother with his two sisters Paula and Johanna. Because of his talent, he was encouraged by the couple Gustav and Rosalie Goldschmidt in Poznan. In Berlin-Charlottenburg he visited the study studio for painting and sculpture for several years , where he was awarded the class prize on March 21, 1914 as a pupil in Lovis Corinth's class. The undersigned jury included Corinth u. a. Max Liebermann , Prof. Arthur Lewin-Funcke and Martin Brandenburg . Treitel is also verifiable as an illustrator and was apparently a member ofBerlin Secession .

On December 14, 1942, Treitel and his two years older, blind and partially paralyzed sister Johanna Treitel, with whom he had lived at Karlsruher Strasse 23 in Berlin since 1925, were deported to Auschwitz and then murdered there. A stumbling block in front of the house is dedicated to both of them .

Works

Works by him can be found in the Jewish Museum Frankfurt am Main and with the families of his clients and clients.

Web links

List of stumbling blocks at Karlsruher Straße 23

Individual evidence

  1. z. B. for the title drawing by: Fritz Gross: Georg Büchner . Stations of a life. Alfred Richard Meyer , Berlin 1919.
  2. ^ See catalog of the 31st exhibition of the Berlin Secession, Oct.-Dec. 1917.
  3. Georg Zivier: Diesseits and beyond the Halenseebrücke , in: ders .: Licht und Schatten , Gustav Spielberg Chronos Verlag GmbH, Berlin 1949, pp. 226–237, here p. 231.
  4. List of stumbling blocks in Berlin-Halensee