Wilhelm Maxon

Wilhelm Georg Maxon (born July 3, 1894 in Bayreuth , † September 12, 1971 in Weisham am Chiemsee) was a German landscape painter and graphic artist .

Life

Maxon comes from a liberal family in Bayreuth. In 1913 he studied at the Munich School of Applied Arts with Fritz Helmuth Ehmcke and in 1918 in Munich initially theater studies. In the private art school he founded in Munich-Schwabing in 1919, the “United Ateliers”, the later sculptor Marianne Lüdicke was his pupil in 1938 . The school served to prepare for the entrance exam for the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . Maxon also received a teaching position there. In addition, he regularly organized a summer painting school in Weisham near Prien . The city of Munich awarded him a travel grant in 1929.

From 1924 to 1931 his participation in the exhibitions of the Munich New Secession is documented, at which he exhibited as a guest: 1924 with two paintings, 1927 with one picture, already with three paintings in 1928, with a landscape painting in 1929, and finally with three paintings in 1931 .

In 1930 Maxon was a member of the exhibition group 7 Münchner Maler , which appeared together for the first time in 1931 under this exhibition title in the Lenbachhaus . In the summer of 1932 he was involved in the Munich 1932 art exhibition in the Deutsches Museum with the Munich jury-free with three works.

From October 29 to November 18, 1932, Maxon's only solo exhibition, entitled Collective Exhibition W. Maxon, took place in the Heinemann Gallery in Munich , in which 37 paintings were shown.

In the 1930s Maxon was considered “degenerate”, so in May 1937 the painting Vegetable Garden in Weisham was removed from the Municipal Gallery in Lenbachhaus and Moorland from the Bavarian State Painting Collection. However, in 1939, 1941, 1942 and 1943 Maxon was able to exhibit six drawings in the Great German Art Exhibition in the Haus der Kunst in Munich, all of which were sold, including two to Willy Messerschmitt .

After the destruction of his Munich studio by an aerial bomb, he moved to the Chiemsee in 1943 with his wife Clara and daughter.

After the Second World War, Maxon co-founded the Chiemsee cultural area in 1945. In August 1945 Maxon organized one of the first free art exhibitions in Prien after the “Third Reich”. Maxon was represented at the Great Art Exhibition in Munich in 1967.

Honors

• 1954: Federal Cross of Merit 1st class in recognition of artistic work and for outstanding services in the field of cultural policy

Retrospectives

• In 2012 there was a retrospective Wilhelm Georg Maxon (1894-1971) and the “Documentum Humanum” from March 16 to April 22, 2012 in the gallery in the old town hall in Prien . A catalog was published for this.
• In 2013 the Inselgalerie Gailer exhibited a replica of Wilhelm Georg Maxon's atelier in the Städtische Galerie Rosenheim.

plant

• Ticino. 12 stone drawings. With an introduction by Oskar Maria Graf . C. Steinitz Verlag, Munich 1922. Portfolio.
• Work on the Rhine. With an introduction by Oskar Maria Graf. C. Steinitz Verlag, Munich 1922. Portfolio.
• Hand-painted woodcuts. With an introduction by Alexander Heilmeyer . C. Steinitz Verlag, Munich 1922. Portfolio.

Public collections

Works by Maxon can be found in the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlung, the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung in Munich, the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus in Munich, the Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern, the Städtische Galerie Rosenheim and the British Museum in London.

literature

• Maxon, Wilhelm . 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. 290 .
• Maxon, Wilhelm . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 355 .
• Elke Lauterbach: 7 Munich painters. An exhibition group in the period from 1931–1937 (= writings from the Institute for Art History at the University of Munich. Volume 70). Munich 1999.

Web links

• Information from Galerie Jaud
• In the tradition of expressionism. A retrospective of the painter Wilhelm Georg Maxon in the gallery in the old town hall Prien. In: Oberbayerisches Volksblatt OVB online, April 4, 2012.
• Gallery in the old town hall Prien

Individual evidence

1. ^ Later also as: Art School WG Maxon / Kallenberger, united studios for applied and visual arts in Munich.
2. ↑ Catalog: Munich New Secession X. Exhibition 1924. C. Wolf and Son, Munich 1924, p. 19 ( Park in Tessin ; Abziehendes Gewitter ).
3. ^ Catalog: Munich New Secession XIII. Exhibition 1927. C. Wolf and Son, Munich 1927, p. 23 ( Roccabella ).
4. ↑ Catalog: Münchener Neue Secession XIV. Exhibition 1928. C. Wolf and Son, Munich 1928, p. 23 ( Palatinate landscape ; brickworks ; St. Benoit ).
5. ^ Catalog: Munich New Secession XV. Summer exhibition 1929. C. Wolf and Son, Munich 1929, p. 20 ( Steinlingalm ).
6. ^ Catalog: Munich New Secession 1931 Spring Exhibition. C. Wolf and Son, Munich 1931, p. 18 ( landscape with blue house ; snow-covered roofs ; St. Malo ).
7. ↑ Introduction to: Elke Lauterbach: 7 Munich painters. 1999 ( Memento of the original from January 2, 2014 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. . 
8. ^ Art exhibition Munich 1932 in the Deutsches Museum (library). June 1 to October 1932. Official catalog. Organizer: The Exhibition Management Munich eV; Munich artists' cooperative; Association of Visual Artists Munich "Secession" eV; Munich New Secession. Knorr & Hirth, Munich 1932, p. 64 ( hilly landscape ; brickworks ; lake landscape ).
9. ^ Leaflet at Galerie Heinemann online in the GNM. Retrieved January 11, 2014.
10. ↑ Quoted from Elke Lauterbach: 7 Munich painters. Munich 1999, p. 49.
11. ^ GDK Research , search: Wilhelm Maxon.
12. ^ Special exhibition Wilhelm Georg Maxon . With photo gallery. Retrieved January 11, 2014.