Max Doerner (artist)
Max Doerner ( born April 1, 1870 in Burghausen / Upper Bavaria, † March 1, 1939 in Munich) was a German painter and restorer and professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich.
Life
Doerner studied in Munich at the Academy and was a pupil of Johann Caspar Herterich and Wilhelm von Diez. His style of painting corresponded to Impressionism, his motives, he sought above all in the countryside around the Ammersee. During his studies in Holland and Italy, he studied with the techniques of the old masters of painting and studied especially the technique of fresco painting in Pompeii. His research fundamentally changed the previous approach of restoration, by relying tried hard to conserve the original substance of a damaged work of art. Its publication painting materials and their Use in Painting (Munich 1921) may be regarded as the first standard work in this field and has spread worldwide. 1911 Doerner was a lecturer in Technique at the Munich Academy, 1921 he was appointed professor. In 1937 the Munich plant Testing and Research Institute was founded, of which he took. This institution still exists today and is called after the founder Doerner Institute; it is now affiliated with the Bavarian State Painting Collections.
As an outstanding student of Max Doerner's true Kurt Wehlte, whose main work materials and techniques of painting useful complements in some places slightly outdated Doerner plant.