Maximilian Klein from Diepold

Maximilian "Max" Klein von Diepold (born October 9, 1873 in Wilhelmshöhe near Kassel , † 1949 in Düsseldorf ) was a German landscape and animal painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Klein von Diepold was the son of the Düsseldorf painter Friedrich Emil Klein and his wife, the poet Friederika Wilhelmina Ada von Diepold, as well as the brother of the painters Leo and Julian Klein von Diepold and the art writer Rudolf Klein-Diepold . He grew up in Düsseldorf since 1873, where he received his first painting lessons from his father. From 1889 he studied painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . There was Heinrich Lauenstein his teacher. Then he switched to the Antwerp Art Academy . With Poppe Folkerts , Paul Ernst Wilke , August Heitmüller , his brother Julian and other people, he founded the "Künstlerbund Norderney" in 1926.

Klein von Diepold painted landscapes on the north German coast, in the Westerwald and above all in the Eifel .

Klein von Diepold, Maximilian . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 20 : Kaufmann – Knilling . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1927, p. 450 .

personal data
SURNAME	Klein von Diepold, Maximilian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Klein von Diepold, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German landscape painter and animal painter
DATE OF BIRTH	October 9, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wilhelmshöhe near Kassel
DATE OF DEATH	1949
Place of death	Dusseldorf