Max Wissner

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Maximilian (Max) Wissner (born June 18, 1873 in Geiersberg , Bohemia, † June 14, 1959 in Regensburg ) was a German painter who mainly worked in Regensburg.

Life

Max Wissner was born as the second child of the architect and railway engineer Gustav Wissner and his wife Sophie. In 1882 the family moved to Karlsruhe . In 1887 Max Wissner began an apprenticeship as a decorative painter. From 1890 to 1893 he attended the Karlsruhe School of Applied Arts , where he studied with Hermann Götz .

In 1891 the family moved to Regensburg; the father Gustav Wissner became an architect at the local royal agricultural office. 1893-1896 Max Wissner did his military service and then went on a hike. In 1900 he stayed partly in Regensburg and made the acquaintance of the banker Max Weinschenk. 1908–1914 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart with Robert Haug . In 1914 he volunteered to take part in the First World War . After the war ended in 1918, he lived with his mother and sister in Regensburg.

In 1924, Wissner co-founded the “Eule” artists' association. In 1945 he was elected chairman of the Regensburg Artists' Association. In 1946 he became honorary president of the professional association of visual artists in Lower Bavaria and Upper Palatinate. After a stroke in 1955, he was paralyzed on his right side.

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Wissner mainly painted figurative motifs, landscapes and portraits. In addition to portraits, he also created altarpieces and wall paintings . His early painting style is close to Art Nouveau and Impressionism , later he became representational and decorative.

In 2017, during demolition work on the old Jahn Stadium in Regensburg, ceiling frescoes with football scenes and images of the founding fathers were discovered, which were identified as work by Wiessner. The portraits include the members of the board of the SSV Jahn, the then mayor Otto Hipp and the builder of the grandstand that was inaugurated in 1931. The other people are presumably Philipp Stumpf, Richard Heider and Joseph Zorzi. Wissner worked as a freelance artist in the "workshop for decorative painting" at Otto Zacharias junior. Until then, only a few of the works he had survived were known. The "View of Old Regensburg" is the oldest on an area of ​​eleven square meters. It is located in the stairwell of the former "Müller'schen Töchterschule" on Petersweg. There is also a wooden ceiling decorated by Wissner in the Bischofshof.

Award

  • 1948: Honorary President of the Professional Association of Visual Artists for life

literature

  • Regensburg - Gift for the museums of the city of Regensburg: An unknown Wissner . In: Franken Tageblatt . December 6, 2017 ( franken-tageblatt.de ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wissner, Max . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 36 : Wilhelmy-Zyzywi . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1947, p. 112 .
  2. ↑ Uta Spies: Wissner, Maximilian. In: General Artist Lexicon. KG Saur, Munich 2014 (restricted access degruyter.com accessed on March 16, 2015).
  3. ↑ Helmut Wanner: Jahn founding fathers saved for posterity. In: Mittelbayerische.de. March 15, 2017, accessed September 30, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Helmut Wanner: The Jahn founding fathers appeared. In: Mittelbayerische.de. March 10, 2017, accessed September 30, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Wissner, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wissner, Maximilian (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Geiersberg , Bohemia
DATE OF DEATH June 14, 1959
Place of death regensburg