Max Wislicenus
Max Wislicenus (born July 17, 1861 in Weimar ; † May 25, 1957 in Dresden-Pillnitz ) was an artist and professor at the Royal Academy of Arts and Crafts in Breslau (Silesia) who worked in painting and image weaving . The admiralty council and naval writer Georg Wislicenus (1858-1927) and the painter Hans Wislicenus (1864-1939) were his brothers.
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The son of the historical painter Hermann Wislicenus , Academy Professor in Dusseldorf , studied in the years 1880 to 1889 in Dusseldorf at the Art Academy in Eduard Gebhardt and Wilhelm Sohn and until 1891 in Munich and married 1894 Else Freudenberg, the end of the year daughter Gonhild gave birth. In 1896 the Prussian Ministry of Culture appointed him as a teacher in the drawing and painting class of the Royal Art and Trade School in Breslau , which was given the rank of academy in 1911 . Wislicenus worked here until 1919, was appointed professor in 1900 and took over the class for textile art. In 1904 he founded the tapestry weaving workshop , the technical management of which he entrusted to Wanda Bibrowicz . In 1908 he was a founding member of the " Künstlerbundes Schlesien ".
At the beginning of the First World War, Wislicenus spent a few months in Russian-occupied eastern Poland and painted pictures of the war misery. When the government of Saxony wanted to revive tapestry weaving, Wislicenus and Bibrowicz received government contracts and work rooms in a wing of Pillnitz Castle near Dresden. It was here in 1919 that they founded the "workshops for picture weaving at Pillnitz Castle".
Wislicenus lived with his family in nearby Hosterwitz until 1945 and moved to the studio after the destruction of Dresden . After the death of his wife Else in 1948, he married Wanda Bibrowicz († 1954) and in 1955 handed over the remains of the "workshops" to the Dresden State Art Collections . About half of his life's work was destroyed by the effects of the war, some remained missing in Silesia or Central Germany. On May 25, 1957, Max Wislicenus died of circulatory failure at the age of 96 and was buried next to Else and Wanda in the church cemetery “ Maria am Wasser ” in Dresden-Hosterwitz.
Web links
- Max Wislicenus on Wislicenus.info
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| SURNAME | Wislicenus, Max |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and picture maker |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 17, 1861 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Weimar |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 25, 1957 |
| Place of death | Pillnitz |