Max Volkers
Max Ludwig Heinrich Rudolf Volkers (born February 2, 1874 in Düsseldorf , † November 21, 1946 in Fischenich , Cologne district ) was a German genre , animal and landscape painter from the Düsseldorf School .
Life
Like his older brothers Fritz and Karl, Max Volkers studied painting with his father, the Düsseldorf horse painter Emil Volkers , and at the Düsseldorf Art Academy , which he attended from 1893 to 1894. There Adolf Schill , Hugo Crola , Heinrich Lauenstein and Peter Janssen the Elder were his teachers. On May 11, 1905, he married Agnes Maria von Groote (1875–1948), a sister of the landscape painter Otto von Groote, in Düsseldorf . The couple had three daughters between 1911 and 1914.
literature
- Volkers, Max . In: Joachim Busse: International manual of all painters and sculptors of the 19th century . Wiesbaden 1977, ISBN 3-9800062-0-4 .
Web links
- Max Volkers , data sheet in the rkd.nl portal( RKD - Nederlands Instituut voor Kunstgeschiedenis )
- Max Volkers , auction results on the portal artnet .de
Individual evidence
- ^ Museum Kunstpalast : Artists from the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016, PDF )
- ↑ Finding aid 212.01.04 Student lists of the Art Academy Düsseldorf , website in the portal archive.nrw.de ( Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen )
- ^ Genealogical handbook of the nobility . CA Starke, 1981, p. 249
- ↑ Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of noble houses . Justus Perthes, Gotha 1922, part 2, p. 321
- ↑ Max Ludwig Heinrich Rudolf Volkers , genealogical data sheet in the portal gw.geneanet.org , accessed on March 31, 2020
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Volkers, Max |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Volkers, Max Ludwig Heinrich Rudolf (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German genre, animal and landscape painter from the Düsseldorf School |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 2, 1874 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dusseldorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 21, 1946 |
| Place of death | Fischenich , Cologne district |