Max Feldbauer

Max field Bauer ( born February 14, 1869 in Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz, † November 20, 1948 in Münchshöfen in Straubing ) was a German painter, member of plaice and the Munich Secession and founding member of the New Munich Secession.

Youth and Education

Max field Bauer was the son of Neumarkt mayor Josef Bauer Field. After the father and five younger siblings had died, his mother moved with Max to Munich. Here are his Malausbildung began at the School of Applied Arts. He moved to the private painting school of Hungary Simon Hollósy where he came closer to Impressionism. At the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich he continued his studies with Otto Seitz, Paul Hoecker and Johann Caspar Herterich, was co-founder of the artist group Flounder and contributed to the magazine The Youth with. In 1908 he left Flounder and joined the Secession, Munich. In 1913 he co-founded the Munich Secession new, in which he worked with Albert Weisgerber as a board. In the fall of 1898 he spent with Angelo Jank, also a horse lover, several weeks in Harburg.

In December 1899 field Bauer married the painter Elise owners from Fronberg in Schwandorf.

Field farmer was from 1901 to 1915 taught at the Women's Academy of the Munich artists association. From 1912 to 1922 field Bauer headed in Mitterndorf at Dachau a painting school. After several trips to Brittany, in Switzerland, Tyrol, Helgoland and Italy, he settled in Mitterndorf at Dachau. In 1916 he was appointed to the School of Applied Arts in Dresden in 1918 to the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden, which he became president in 1928. In 1933 after the seizure of power by Adolf Hitler, he received first exhibition ban on his works. Field Bauer moved then to Munich, where in 1944 he was bombed. Then he moved to Münchshöfen in the community Oberschneiding ( Straubing-Bogen district ), where he died in 1948.

In August 1944 Adolf Hitler took him on in the Gottbegnadeten list of the most important painters of the Nazi state.

Artistic work

Field Bauer was one of the most enthusiastic people at the weekly magazine The youth, he delivered about 250 works. As a member of the artist group Flounder and to participate in their exhibitions in the Glass Palace in Munich, he was known. His Bavarian- rough type also found in his choice of subject and technique reflected. Preferably, he painted peasant scenes, soldiers and horses pictures, but also inn moods.

Works, exhibitions and honors

  • To 1908 with exhibitions of plaice in the Glass Palace
  • 1910 field Bauer special exhibition at the art store Brakl in Munich
  • 1915 field Bauer Exhibition in Dresden
  • Won competition in 1928 for painting in Amsterdam
  • 1933 received the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art
  • 1944 Exhibition of Graphic Works in the House of German Art with presentation of the Goethe Medal for Art and Science.

Works in museums

  • Dresden, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister
  • Munich, Bavarian State Painting Collections
  • Munich, National Graphic Arts Collection
  • Munich, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus
  • Regensburg, Museum of the City of Regensburg
  • Regensburg, East Germans gallery
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