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Maxim Kopf (born January 18, 1892 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; died July 6, 1958 in Twin Farms, Barnard (Vermont) ) was a Czech painter and sculptor. He was initially strongly influenced by Expressionism and later mainly created works with biblical themes and landscapes.

Life

Maxim Kopf grew up in Prague as a child of an Austro-Czech family. He studied with August Brömse even before the First World War . During the war he was an officer in the Austrian army. After the war ended, he decided to take Czech citizenship and moved to Prague. In 1919 he founded the artist group “Die Pilger”, an association of German and German-speaking artists in Bohemia. The group initially included other students of Brömse such as Josef Hegenbarth , Emil Helzel , Norbert Hochsieder , Julius Pfeiffer and Leo Sternhell . Later, people like Mary Duras , Walther Klemm , Moriz Melzer and Emil Orlik joined the group, which existed until 1925.

Kopf completed his training in Dresden in 1923 . His first marriage was the sculptor Mary Duras, with whom he lived temporarily in New York, as he worked for the Ziegfeld Theater in 1923 . Here he was able to organize an exhibition in the New Gallery for the visiting artists Hilde Goldschmidt , Friedrich Karl Gotsch and Hans Meyboden .

Kopf traveled to Tahiti and the Marquesas and lived in phases in Paris and again in Prague , where he founded the group "Junge Kunst" in 1927, which had its first exhibition in 1928 and which in 1929 became the Prague Secession . The marriage with Duras was divorced in 1933.

After fleeing Hitler's troops from Prague to Paris, Kopf was interned in France as an enemy foreigner. After five months he was released and went to French Morocco as a member of the Foreign Legion , where he was interned again after France surrendered. His next stop was Martinique . He was interned there too. He spent a total of two and a half years in camps. In 1941 he came to the USA. In the summer of 1942 he met Dorothy Thompson , whom he portrayed in her home in Barnard, Vermont . About a year later Dorothy Thompson and Maxim Kopf married in Barnard. In 1944 he exhibited at the American British Art Center. In the summer of 1945 he visited his Czech homeland with Thompson.

After Kopf died from a heart attack, a séance was held with the medium Arthur Ford; There is a 33-page typescript about this session and other psychological phenomena after Kopf's death. Maxim Kopf and Dorothy Thompson were buried in Barnard Cemetery.

Works in museums

Kopf's works can be found in the Everson Museum of Art, the Hood Museum of Art, the Memorial Art Gallery, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Saint Louis Art Museum, and the National Gallery in Prague.

Others

Kopf created an ex-libris for Dorothy Thompson . It shows a woman who, holding a book in her raised hands, strides over a devil.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from March 28, 2010 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ogl.cz
  2. ↑ Walter Schurian (Ed.): Hilde Goldschmidt . Hartmann, Munich 1983, pp. 9-11.
  3. ↑ Marek Nekula, Walter Koshaben and Joachim Rogall (eds.), Germans and Czechs. History - Culture - Politics , CH Beck ²2007, ISBN 978-3406459542 , p. 246 f.
  4. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated August 13, 2009 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dreyblatt.de
  5. ^ Philip Hamburger, The Talk of the Town. Mr. Kopf , in: The New Yorker, November 25, 1944, p. 17
  6. ↑ Dorothy Thompson to Wed Maxim Kopf, Czech, in June , in: St. Petersburg Times , April 13, 1943, p. 4
  7. ↑ http://www.gwu.edu/~erpapers/myday/displaydoc.cfm?_y=1944&_f=md056957
  8. ↑ https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,775983,00.html
  9. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from July 3, 2010 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.library.georgetown.edu
  10. ^ John J. Duffy et al. (Eds.), The Vermont Encyclopedia , University Press of New England 2003, ISBN 978-1584650867 , p. 48
  11. ↑ http://www.askart.com/AskART/artists/search/Search_Grid.aspx?searchtype=MUSEUMS&artist=103153
  12. ↑ http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_7NCogbYygV0/S7gKDCFuuOI/AAAAAAAADZc/oSH2RJW1Ipw/s1600/thompson.jpg
personal data
SURNAME Head, Maxim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech painter and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH July 6, 1958
Place of death Barnard (Vermont)