Maximilian Modde

Maximilian Modde

Maximilian Robert Carl Modde (born April 13, 1862 in Magdeburg ; † August 14, 1933 in Berlin ) was a German architecture , portrait and genre painter and art writer .

Life

Maximilian Modde was born as the son of the city treasurer Emil Otto Wilhelm Modde and his wife Dorothe Berther Emma Oberdörffer in Magdeburg and baptized on June 8, 1862 in Magdeburg's St. Nicolai Church . He was the oldest of four children. His brother Johannes Carl Emil Modde was a recognized slaughterhouse master in Giessen . He also had two sisters, Hedwig and Emma.

He completed his education at the community school, and in April 1872 he switched to the Guericke School. He left on April 6, 1881 to study painting. On his leaving certificate it was already clear that Modde was interested in the fine arts and less in the other subjects. In the foreign languages ​​English and French he was only rated “insufficient”, while he was rated “quite good” in drawing. In the subject of description of nature, his performance was described as "good".

With his decision to develop his artistic talent, he left Magdeburg. He first went to Giessen and studied there at Ludwigs University (1881–1884). He then moved to Berlin and studied philosophy, architecture and art history at the Academy of Fine Arts (1884–1887). His teachers included u. a. the sculptor Reinhold Begas and the painter Anton von Werner . In order to pursue his special inclination, architectural painting, he also attended the Polytechnic in Charlottenburg .

From October 1885 to October 1886 he attended the teaching facility of the Berlin Museum of Decorative Arts . This was followed by a three-year apprenticeship with a Berlin painter.

In 1915 he began teaching in schools. In the school year 1915/16 he represented the failed art teacher for four lessons at the Berlin Middle School in the Steglitz district , and at the Steglitz Oberrealschule he was full-time responsible for drawing lessons for three years (1915-1918). In the school year 1919/20 he worked at the Steglitz Stauffen-Realgymnasium. Later he also taught numerous students in his own studio.

He had his first studio on Kochstrasse in Berlin . In 1898 he moved to Belle-Alliance-Straße (today Mehringdamm ), where he took over the studio of the painter Walter Moras .

He was a member of the scientific art association and honorary member of the "Society of Science, Letters and Art" in London, a London artists' association in which only a maximum of 12 members were admitted. Whenever an artist died, a new member was appointed.

After his first wife died in 1918, he met his second wife Luise Emma Martha Schmidt, whom he married on April 22, 1922. A son was born in 1924.

The artist Adolph von Menzel was one of his closest friends . Further friendships connected him with the director of the Berlin art school Professor Philipp Franck , the architect Carl Schellhase and the journalist Dr. P. Austria. He was also known to Walter Leistikow , Max Liebermann and the writer Hans Schwarz .

He died in Berlin in 1933. Since his wife suffered from Alzheimer's disease , his son was taken into the care of his maternal uncle.

Works (selection)

painting

• Altstadtgasse with passers-by and residents in front of the houses
• The interior of the Magdeburg Cathedral
• The pot fixers
• s Trudl

Fonts

• The pulpit in Magdeburg Cathedral. In: Christian art paper for church, school, etc. House. Volume 26, 1884, pp. 119-123.
• The St. Alexius Hospital to Our Lady . In: History sheets for the city and state of Magdeburg. No. 25, 1890, pp. 257-324.
• Our Lady Monastery in Magdeburg. Creutz-Verlag, Magdeburg 1911.

literature

• Richard Wrede (ed.): The spiritual Berlin. Volume 1: Life and work of architects, sculptors, stage artists, journalists, painters, musicians, writers, draftsmen. Storm, Berlin 1897.
• Intellectual Germany at the end of the 19th century. Encyclopedia of German intellectual life in biographical sketches. Volume 1. Röder, Leipzig and Berlin 1898.
• Modde, Maximilian . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 24 : Mandere – Möhl . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1930, p. 346 .

Web links

• Maximilian Modde on Artnet