Max Wolfinger

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Max Wolfinger (* 1. June 1837 in Mannheim ; † 12. December 1913 in Aarau ) was a painter and teacher at several Aargau middle schools and curator .

Life

After Wolfinger had finished school in Mannheim, he attended the lyceum in his hometown. Then he trained in the studio of the painter Willhelm Dünkel , his uncle. Wolfinger later entered the painting classes at the Grand Ducal Picture Gallery in Mannheim. This gallery was run by gallery director and court painter Theodor Weller . After two years of study in Berlin and Dresden from 1857 to 1859, he moved to Munich in 1859 . There Wolfinger devoted himself entirely to landscape painting .

Teaching

In May 1857 he was hired as a teacher for art drawing at the Aargau Teachers' Seminar in Wettingen and at the Baden District School. After a short time he also took over drawing lessons at the Brugg District School . From autumn 1876 he also taught at the canton school and at the teachers' college in Aarau, d. H. at all higher secondary schools in the canton. Wolfinger worked on the development of drawing lessons in his time.

Art funding

In 1898 an illness forced him to concentrate only on painting and the promotion of art in the canton. He became a member of the board of directors of the Aargau Art Association. In 1896 the collected works of art owned by the canton were combined with the holdings of the Aargau Art Association in the halls of the newly built trade museum to form the “cantonal art collection”. Wolfinger set up these, organized exhibitions and became the first conservator from 1896 to 1901. For his services the art association made him an honorary member.

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His paintings show typical features of Munich landscape painting in the second half of the 19th century. His work “Park in Königsfelden” is in the Aargau Art Collection and the city of Aarau and the Aargau Cantonal School each have two landscapes “Studies from Upper Bavaria”.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. on this: Franz Kretz. Steps out of the house. Beginnings and youth of teacher education in Aarau, Aarau 1994, p. 82f.
  2. ^ Society for Swiss Art History (ed.): Inventaire suisse d'architecture, 1850–1920: villes (=  INSA, inventory of modern Swiss architecture, 1850–1920: Cities . Volume 1 ). Orell Füssli, Bern 1982, ISBN 3-280-01509-X , p. 90 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  3. ↑ Swiss National Museum, Association of Swiss Antiquities, Society for Swiss Art History (ed.): Journal for Swiss Archeology and Art History, Volume 50 . Verlag Birkhäuser, 1993, ISSN  0044-3476 , OCLC 1770534 , p. 290 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
personal data
SURNAME Wolfinger, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1837
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim
DATE OF DEATH December 12, 1913
Place of death Aarau