Max Weiler (painter)

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Bust of Max Weiler on the facade of the Tyrolean State Museum , created in 2011 by Johannes Schlögl and Markus Jestl

Max Weiler (born August 27, 1910 in Absam , † January 29, 2001 in Vienna ) was an Austrian painter .

Life

Lance engraving , fresco, Theresienkirche Innsbruck, 1946/1947

Max Weiler was born as the son of Max Weiler, a kk  judge in Hall in Tirol , and his wife Margaretha Maria Engel. He attended the Cistercian high school in Mehrerau near Bregenz and the Franziskaner high school in Hall in Tirol .

In 1929 Weiler graduated from the teacher training college in Innsbruck and attended the Toni Kirchmayr painting school there . Then he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna with Karl Sterrer . This gave him the first access to the pictures of the ancient Chinese landscape painting of the Song Dynasty  (960-1279). From 1964 to 1981 he was a professor of painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna.

In 1931 Weiler received the academic school award . In 1935 an exhibition of his pictures followed at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. In 1936 he received the academic study award .

In 1936, Rector Clemens Holzmeister commissioned Max Weiler to work on the artistic design of the Austria Chapel in the papal pavilion at the Paris 1937 World Exhibition . For this, Weiler created the stained glass window Bund in the Son's Blood .

A state scholarship took the painter to Rome in 1937 . From 1939 to 1942 he was an assistant teacher in Telfs and Zams near Landeck . In 1940 Weiler joined the NSDAP and took part in the exhibition “Zeitgeborene Kunst”. At the Innsbruck Gau art exhibition Tirol-Vorarlberg in 1942, his large-format picture of the East Tyrolean farming family , committed to the blood and soil ideology, was shown. In 1942 a full-page reproduction of a portrait drawing Gebirgsjäger appeared in the November issue, Kunst dem Volk , within an article Kunstschaffen in Tirol-Vorarlberg by Otto von Lutterotti : “The latter Max Weiler is a very promising talent and repeatedly tears through his energetic lines and bold prima painting with. “From 1942 to 1945 Weiler was drafted by the German Wehrmacht and used as a private in Northern Italy and Yugoslavia.

In 1945 Weiler won the competition for the execution of the frescoes in the Theresienkirche on the Hungerburg in Innsbruck. This work caused heated discussions because it showed people in Tyrolean costume at the crucifixion of Christ. As a result of the disputes, the frescoes were hung for years.

Ascension , wayside shrine 13 on Loretto-Weg Hallerstraße , around 1951

Between 1950 and 1954 he worked on other frescoes. During his trip to Paris (1949) he met Nicolas de Staël and Alfred Manessier . In 1954 his pictures were exhibited in the Künstlerhaus Salzburg .

Weiler won various prizes early on, but his work did not always meet with popular approval, as was the case (1948, frescoes of the Theresienkirche) for "degrading the peasant class" and the public disputes (1955) over the wall paintings in Innsbruck train station demonstrate.

Arma Christi , mural in Imst-Brennbichl, 1957

In addition to oil paintings , drawings and frescoes , Weiler's work also included mosaics , ceramics and concrete glass windows (chapel of the Eucharist Sisters in Salzburg-Herrnau) as well as designs for tapestries. In 1955 Weiler took part in the III. Biennale of São Paulo . In 1960 he represented Austria at the XXX. Venice Biennale . In that year Weiler began to put down his self-reflections in the day and night notebooks (20 volumes up to 1991).

In 1961 the exhibition As all things ... took place in the city hall of the Tyrolean Chamber of Commerce in Innsbruck . In the same year Weiler was awarded the Great Austrian State Prize. In 1963 he traveled to Florence . A year later he took over a master class for painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Further study trips to Apulia  (1968), numerous exhibitions and a trip to Assisi  (1972) followed. In 1978 a Weiler exhibition took place in the graphic collection of the Albertina in Vienna (catalog by Walter Koschatzky and others). In 1981 he retired as professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna.

Further exhibitions at home and abroad took place at the Frankfurter Kunstverein and the Krinzinger Gallery in Innsbruck (1984), as well as at the Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart  (1984). In 1988 Weiler had an exhibition in the hall of the Soviet Union of Artists in Moscow (1988), after which he traveled to Leningrad . In 1988 he made trips to Basel ( art fair ) and Colmar ( Isenheimer Altar ) as well as a summer stay in Positano (Italy). In 1989 Max Weiler traveled to Mexico City to exhibit his works at the Museo de Arte Moderno . This exhibition has also been shown in the USA and Switzerland ( Stanford Museum , California; University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City; Kunstmuseum Bern ). Hamlet visited Mayan monuments on the Yucatán Peninsula and then stayed in the Caribbean. A hamlet exhibition in the Hungarian National Gallery in Budapest took place in 1989. The first major retrospective was held in 1989 in the Museum of the 20th Century in Vienna (catalog by Yvonne Fahlström).

In 1990 Max Weiler made a trip through the highlands of Kenya and through the most important nature reserves. This was followed by a longer stay in the Indian Ocean. On his 80th birthday, he made his first trip to the USA. In 1990 there was a hamlet exhibition in the Slovak National Gallery in Bratislava and the second exhibition in the Albertina Vienna under the title Art like Nature, Pictures from 1973 to 1990 . In 1990 Weiler traveled again to Kenya and the Indian Ocean. The picture Like a Symphony was exhibited in 1991 in listening room 4 of the Mozart exhibition of the State of Salzburg at Kleßheim Palace. There was also an exhibition in the National Gallery in Prague . In 1993 a stamp designed by Max Weiler for the Austrian Post was issued . In 1995 Weiler spent the summer holidays at Mondsee . There he had a serious accident. In 1998 there was an exhibition at NAMOC, the Chinese National Museum in Beijing.

Weiler's grave of honor in Vienna's central cemetery

Max Weiler died on January 29, 2001 in Vienna. He rests in a grave of honor in Vienna's central cemetery (group 33 G, number 30). In 2003, Max-Weiler-Platz in Vienna's Innere Stadt (1st district) was named after him.

Private life

Max Weiler married his girlfriend Gertraud Frenner in 1941, who died in 1985. The daughter Gertraud, born in 1950, died in an accident in 1957. In 1991 Weiler married Yvonne J. Fahlström (1941–2015), whom he met as the curator of an exhibition of Austrian contemporary art in 1979 and with whom he had worked from 1986. The marriage lasted until his death.

Awards

Works (selection)

Exhibitions (selection)

  • Crisis years. Max Weiler and the War , special exhibition in the Army History Museum Vienna, 2004
  • Max Weiler . In: Albertina , Vienna, 2018

literature

  • Wilfried Skreiner: Max Weiler, first monograph. Residenz Verlag, Salzburg 1975.
  • Wieland Schmied: Max Weiler seen from CD Friedrich. Publication on the occasion of the exhibition "Like Nature". Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, 1978.
  • Walther Koschatzky u. a .: Max Weiler. Works on paper from 1931-1978. Catalog for the exhibition in the Graphic Collection of the Albertina Vienna. Allerheiligenpresse, Innsbruck 1978.
  • Otto Breicha (Ed.): Max Weiler - The Inner Figure. Monograph on the occasion of the 1989 retrospective. Verlag der Galerie Welz, Salzburg.
  • Made from nature, pictures from 1927-1997. Monograph. Tyrolia Verlag, Innsbruck / Vienna.
  • Wieland Schmied: Max Weiler - a different picture of nature - the way to late work. Catalog for the 1998 exhibition at the Beijing National Museum.
  • Gottfried Boehm: Max Weiler. In the century of modernity. 1999.
  • Peter Assmann (catalog ed.): Max Weiler. Drawing and painting on paper, 1927-2000. Verlag Bibliothek der Provinz, Weitra 2000, ISBN 978-3-85252-223-4 (= catalogs of the Upper Austrian State Museum, NF, 157).
  • Ekkart Sauser :  Weiler, Max. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 19, Bautz, Nordhausen 2001, ISBN 3-88309-089-1 , Sp. 1542-1544.
  • Gottfried Boehm: The painter Max Weiler. The spiritual in art. Springer-Verlag, Vienna 2001. ( The spiritual in nature. Second, improved edition. Springer-Verlag, Vienna / New York 2010, ISBN 978-3-211-38473-2 .)
  • Manfried Rauchsteiner : Crisis Years. Max Weiler and the War , in: Viribus Unitis. Annual report 2004 of the Heeresgeschichtliches Museum , Vienna 2005, pp. 31–36.
  • Matthias Boeckl: Max Weiler. 1910-2001. Four walls. German English; MUMOK Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation , Springer-Verlag, Vienna / New York 2008, ISBN 978-3-211-49003-7 .
  • Karlheinz Essl among others: Max Weiler. The nature of painting. German English. Hirmer Verlag, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-7774-2671-6 .
  • Matthias Boeckl among others: Max Weiler. The great works. Haymon Verlag, Innsbruck 2010, ISBN 978-3-85218-648-1 . Exhibition 2011 in the Albertina Museum, Vienna.
  • Klaus Albrecht Schröder: Max Weiler. The drawer. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2011, ISBN 978-3-7757-2997-0 .

Documentaries

  • Harald Zusanek: Max Weiler. Regulator Film, Vienna 1973.
  • Kristina Hauser: film portrait of Max Weiler. On behalf of ORF , 2000.

Web links

Commons : Max Weiler  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Person page on Max Weiler ( Memento of the original from October 1, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the Essl Museum . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sammlung-essl.at
  2. ↑ 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. 165, 176-177 .
  3. ↑ biography. In: Gottfried Boehm : Max Weiler. The spiritual in art. Springer Verlag, Vienna 2010, p. 435.
  4. ↑ Yvonne Weiler died at the age of 73. In: Courier from January 19, 2015 (accessed on January 19, 2015).
  5. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
  6. ↑ Exhibition on Art and National Socialism reveals omissions - derStandard.at. Retrieved April 5, 2019 (Austrian German).
  7. ^ History of the Theresienkirche ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hungerburg.at archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. hungerburg.at
  8. ↑ Glass window "Lamm Gottes" by Max Weiler  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.eucharistie-schwestern.at   , eucharistie-schwestern.at → chapel tour
  9. ^ Removal of the Max Weiler-Friese. In: tirol.orf.at. August 24, 2015, accessed March 30, 2016 .
  10. ↑ Manfried Rauchsteiner : Crisis Years. Max Weiler and the War , in: Viribus Unitis. Annual report 2004 of the Heeresgeschichtliches Museum , Vienna 2005, pp. 31–36.
  11. ↑ Max Weiler . In Albertina , Vienna 2018
personal data
SURNAME Hamlet, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Absam
DATE OF DEATH January 29, 2001
Place of death Vienna