Maximilian Lenz (painter)

Maximilian Lenz ( born October 4, 1860 in Vienna, † May 18, 1948 in Vienna ) was an Austrian painter, graphic artist and sculptor. He was a founding member of the Vienna Secession.

Life and work

Lenz was born on 4 October 1860 in Josefstädterstraße Ranked # 23 in Vienna. He was the son of the master shoemaker Vincent Lenz and his wife Anna Teresa, born Krzbelka. Lenz had two sisters, Leopoldine Anna and Emma (the latter died at the age of 26 years) and a brother who died too early.

The talent of Maximilian Lenz - early awakened and recognized - by the artistic interest of his father. At the age of 14, he spent three years at art school before he was admitted to the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna at the age of 17 years. In the following years, Maximilian Lenz constantly developed under the influence of different teachers on, he received awards as well as some well-endowed scholarships, among other things, a two-year stay in Italy it - mainly in Rome - enabled. 1886 Lenz took at the invitation of the Viennese engraver Schirnböck a work order in Buenos Aires, where he is said to have made ​​, among others, for the central bank banknote designs as well as in the magazine " El Sudamericano " published numerous illustrations. It was coined by the ruling at this time revolution, which he recorded in several works. Back in Vienna, Lenz was a part of as they were developing art scene. It emerged artists' associations (such as the Hagen society ) which gradually reverse flow to the conservative line of the Künstlerhaus provoked, finally emerged from the 1896/1897, the Vienna Secession.

The second exhibition in 1898 at the same time the opening of their own building, the sweet -called " Krauthappel " by Joseph Maria Olbrich was celebrated. Before the division of the US-led symbolist Gustav Klimt (1905 ), contrary to the Lenz led by Josef Engelhart group of naturalists joined, he created several works of art in numerous exhibitions of the Secession. So probably its most representative works of this artistically fertile phase emerged. In 1903 he undertook together with Gustav Klimt traveled to northern Italy, which sustained Klimt ( Golden period ), but also Maximilian Lenz at least briefly, artistically influenced.

1904 pulled the Maximilian Lenz to Lower Austria, where he had accepted the services of the " court painter " as an art teacher for the prestigious family Kupelwieser. One of the most artistically talented family members was Ida Kupelwieser (1870-1927), who married Lenz at the age of 66 years in Vienna in 1926, but was taken from him already four months later by a stroke out of life. He spent his next short stay in Vienna in Jagdgut Kyrnberg the Kupelwieser family in Phyra in St. Pölten, before he died in 1948 at the age of 88 years in Vienna.

Works

  • One World (1899 )
  • Sirk Corner (1900)
  • Spring (1904 )
  • Iduna (1904 )
  • Theatre curtain of the National Theater in Iasi, Romania
  • Burned Justitia, ceiling painting of the Palace of Justice Vienna, 1927
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