Maximilian Liebenwein
Maximilian Liebenwein (born April 11, 1869 in Vienna , † July 17, 1926 in Munich ) was an Austrian- South German painter, graphic artist and book illustrator between Impressionism and Art Nouveau .
Life
The painter's grandfather was Emperor Franz Joseph's personal chamberlain , his uncle was a coroner and expert in the Mayerling tragedy . Maximilian Liebenwein visited the Vienna Schottengymnasium and 1887-1891 at the Vienna Academy , the general painting school at Julius Victor Berger and the history specialist at Josef Mathias Trenkwald , then he moved to Karlsruhe Caspar Ritter and Henry reins , he was its master student 1895-1897 in Munich . From 1897 he lived as a freelance painter in Munich, in 1899 he moved to a tower in Burghausen / Salzach Castle , which he equipped as a total work of art. It was then that he found the Art Nouveau form that was characteristic of him.
1900 he won a competition of Ludwig Stollwerck to draft a Stollwerck - Scrapbook . Other award winners were Fritz Helmuth Ehmcke from Berlin, Ernst Neumann from Munich, Adolf Höfer and Walter Püttner from Munich and Karl Hölle from Hamburg. The judges were professors Emil Doepler the Elder . J., Woldemar Friedrich , Bruno Schmitz and Franz Skarbina from Berlin as well as a partner in the Stollwerck company.
In 1900 he became a member of the Vienna Secession , in 1912 its vice-president. In 1904 he joined the German Association of Artists in Weimar , and in 1909 the Luitpold Group in Munich . In 1907/08 he created the “love wine frieze” for the Linzer Sparkasse , and in 1909 he received the Golden State Medal in Graz . At that time he moved to Vienna , where he ran a painting school (also accessible to women) until 1914. He still spent the summers in Burghausen, where he lived permanently from 1921. In 1910 he furnished a hall of the First International Hunting Exhibition in Vienna with monumental paintings. 1915–1918 he took part in the First World War as an officer , producing many drawings and 54 sketchbooks. 1919–1925 he created a large cycle of the life of Mary. In 1923, like Alfred Kubin, he was one of the founding members of the Innviertel Artists' Guild . He died in Munich in 1926 and was buried in the Burghauser Friedhof (grave number: wall grave W39).
Works
- Reiterin, 1895 (Linz, Nordico City Museum ), oil on canvas, 75.5 × 99.5 cm
- Parzival, 1899 (private collection), tempera on cardboard, 82.5 × 135 cm (with the artist's original frame)
- St. Genofefa, St. Hubertus, St. Margaretha, St. Martinus, 1900 (private property, Vienna Museum, unknown property), tempera on cardboard, each 60 × 75 cm
- Wall painting cycle, 1899 (Burghausen, Burg, Liebenweinturm) Casein painting on plastered furniture for the Liebenwein-Turm, 1901, partly preserved in private ownership
- The Goose Girl, fairy tale cycle in 9 pictures, tempera on cardboard, 75 × 60 cm each, lost
- St. Jörg, eine pious Maere, 1904 (private property), tempera on paper and card, each 89.5 × 69.5 cm
- Sleeping Beauty, fairy tale cycle in 7 pictures, 1905, tempera on cardboard, each 75 × 110 cm, lost
- The rose miracle of St. Elisabeth, 1905 (private collection), 74.5 × 59.2 cm
- King Drosselbart. Fairy tale cycle in 7 pictures, 1905/06, tempera on cardboard, 75 × 75 or 75 × 110 cm missing
- The disreputable pond, 1907 (private property), 59.5 × 74.8 cm
- Large frieze in the ballroom of the Linzer Sparkasse, 1907/08, mixed media, nine parts, 94.4 × 174 or 94.5 × 217/219 or 84.5 × 283 cm each
- Giselher's engagement in Bechelaren, 1909 (private property) 3 parts, 135 × 115 and 125 × 282 cm
- Hunting cycle, 1910 (private collection), 3 parts, oil on canvas, 257 × 120, 264 × 542 and 264 × 427 cm
- Roland the shield bearer, wall paintings in the knight's hall of Moosham Castle in Lungau, only drafts have survived, tempera on paper, each 27.5 × 125 or 160.5 cm
- Europa, 1913 (private collection), oil tempera on canvas, 191 × 251 cm
- Eva in Paradies, 1914 (private property), oil on canvas, 246 × 144.5 cm
- Marienleben, twelve-part cycle, 1925 (Convent of the Franciscan Sisters of Vöcklabruck ), tempera on cardboard, each 62 × 77 or 104.5 cm
- St. Hubertus, three-part cycle, 1926 (private collection), tempera on cardboard, 100 × 75 or 100 × 120 cm
- Numerous posters, book illustrations, drawings
literature
- Maximilian Liebenwein, afterword by the draftsman. A piece of development history, In: Festgabe for the 100th anniversary of the Schottengymnasium. dedicated by former Schott students, Vienna 1907, pp. 381–406.
- Eduard Haas, Maximilian Liebenwein: In: The Christian art . Monthly for all areas of Christian art and art history as well as for the entire art life. 5, Munich 1909, pp. 225-232.
- Louis Grellepois: Maximilian Liebenwein. A portrait of an artist. Self-published by the author, printed by Ferdinand Wurst, Lilienfeld, 1926
- Hans Lang, Maximilian Liebenwein: In: The faithful Eckart. 7/2, Vienna 1929/1930, pp. 577-584.
- Wolfgang Liebenwein, the painter Maximilian Liebenwein: In: Local history of the district of Lilienfeld. Volume 3, Lilienfeld 1964, pp. 215-219.
- Lothar Schultes (Ed.), Maximilian Liebenwein: A Painter Between Impressionism and Art Nouveau. Catalogs of the Upper Austrian State Museum, NS 48, Linz 2006, ISBN 978-3-85474-159-6 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Hofacker, Prof. Karl: Kunstgewerbeblatt 11th year, Leipzig, 1900
- ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Full members of the German Association of Artists since it was founded in 1903 / Liebenwein, Maximilian (accessed on April 12, 2019)
- ^ Maximilian Liebenwein - An Art Nouveau painter between Munich and Vienna, in: Web presence of the Burghausen City Museum
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dear wine, Maximilian |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian-German painter, graphic artist and book illustrator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 11, 1869 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna , Austria |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 17, 1926 |
| Place of death | Munich , Germany |