Max Zettler

Max Zettler: At Icking

Max Emanuel Zettler (born January 2, 1886 in Munich ; † October 25, 1926 there ) was a German painter . He mainly created small format pictures.

Life

Max Zettler was born out of wedlock to the cook Bibiana Zettler. No data are available about his difficult childhood and adolescence, nor about his adult life, which was characterized by illness and alcohol addiction .

“In the 20s in Munich's beer cellars - first in the Hofbräuhauskeller upstairs on Gasteig - you could often see a small, slender man with a noticeably large nose who went from table to table and offered small, self-painted pictures to buy. They were mostly small-format Munich motifs, painted very quickly and skillfully on cardboard…. The prices that the painter asked for his work were at the lowest limit of the two-digit numbers, depending on the hunger and especially the thirst of the artist, sometimes in the single-digit range. "

Zettler was self-taught and did not take part in official art exhibitions, with the exception of 1924, where he was represented with four oil paintings at the annual exhibition in the Munich Glass Palace. His pictures, which he often did not sign, mostly contain motifs from Munich (streets, squares, parks, etc.), the landscape around Munich and Dachau , especially the moor .

Hermann Reiner sums up his artistic legacy:

“Its colors are clearly accentuated and set next to each other in a strongly contrasting manner, yet still combine the motif into a unit. The street pictures and landscapes are obviously not built in the studio according to studies, but - at least the small formats - painted directly from nature…. He was a very talented autodidact, not trained technically or compensatory by the school of the academy and also a bohemian of the purest water. "

The seriously ill of pulmonary tuberculosis died in 1926. He was buried in the north cemetery of his hometown. The grave site was closed in 1942.

Works (selection)

• Person in landscape , 33 cm × 46 cm oil / cardboard
• Children's playground , 20 cm × 27 cm oil / wood
• Munich cityscape at the Hofgarten , 32 cm × 44 cm oil / cardboard
• Munich area , 31 cm × 40 cm oil / canvas
• Small chapel , 25 cm × 27 cm oil / cardboard
• Upper Bavarian landscape , 9.5 cm × 20.5 cm oil / wood
• Landscape near Starnberg , 33 cm × 35 cm oil / cardboard
• In the Dachau area , 51 cm × 37 cm oil / cardboard
• At the Deutschem Museum in Munich , 33 cm × 29 cm oil / cardboard
• Marienplatz in Munich , 24 cm × 38 cm oil / cardboard
• Moor landscape , 43 cm × 25.5 cm oil / canvas
• Auer Dult in Munich , 63 cm × 46 cm oil / cardboard
• In the Biedersteinerpark in Munich , 32.5 cm × 41.5 cm oil / cardboard
• House on the outskirts , 25 cm × 21 cm oil / cardboard
• Systems at Maximiliansplatz in Munich , 24 cm × 34 cm oil / cardboard

literature

• Hermann Reiner: The Munich painter Max Zettler 1886–1926. In: The Art and the Beautiful Home 1981, pp. 29–32.
• Hermann Reiner: Max Zettler. In: Hermann Reiner (ed.): Munich impressionists of the twenties: Josef Futterer, Hans Heider, Charles Vetter, Julius Seyler, Hermann Groeber, Franz Naager, Max Zettler. Reiner, Babenhausen 1981, no p.

Web links

• Max Zettler (German, 1886–1926). at artnet

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Hermann Reiner: Max Zettler. 1981, no p.