Max Slevogt
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Max Slevogt | |
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Emil Orlik | |
Born | 8 October 1868 Landshut, Germany |
Died | 20 September 1932 Leinsweiler, Bavaria, Germany | (aged 63)
Nationality | German |
Education | Munich Academy Académie Julian |
Known for | Painter, scene designer |
Movement | Orientalist |
Max Slevogt (8 October 1868 – 20 September 1932) was a German
Biography
He was born in
Toward the end of the 1890s his palette brightened. He travelled again to Paris in 1900, where he was represented in the German pavilion of the world exhibition with the work Scheherezade, and was greatly impressed by the paintings of Édouard Manet. In 1901 he joined the Berlin Secession.
A trip to Egypt in 1914 resulted in 21 oil paintings in a fresh bright style, as well as numerous watercolors and drawings; on the return journey he stopped off in Italy. In June he acquired the country seat Neukastel. After the outbreak of World War I he was sent as official war painter to the western front. The war experience brought about a search for new style appropriate to the expression of the horrors of war. In the same year he became a member of the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin.
He designed scenery for the performance of
Max Slevogt died in Leinsweiler (at that time in the Rheinpfalz part of Bavaria) in 1932. He is buried in the burial place of the family Finkler east of his house, the so-called Slevogthof (with wall paintings) at Neukastel.
Restitutions of artworks
In 2020 the Saarland Cultural Heritage Foundation announced the return of the following Max Slevogt works to the heirs of Julius Freund, whose family was racially persecuted as Jews after 30 January 1933 and forced to sell under the Nazis.[2]
- Francisco d'Andrade (Head Study), 1902, oil on canvas.
- The Port of Brindisi, 1914, watercolor
- Li-Hung-Tschang, 1900, ink drawing
- Scheherezade tells her story to the Caliph, 1901, pen drawing
- Mungos, 1901, watercolor pen drawing
- Lamenting Women (Lamenting Women in front of a House), ca.1898–1903, pen and ink drawing
Selected paintings
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Danaë (1895)
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Portrait of the Dancer Marietta di Rigardo (1904)
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Grape Harvest (ca. 1900–1909)
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Francisco d'Andrade as Don Giovanni(1912)
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Under the Linden Trees (1913)
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Sudanese Women in Egypt (1914), Albertinum
References
- ^ "Max Slevogt". Olympedia. Retrieved 26 July 2020.
- ^ "Stiftung Saarlaendischer Kulturbesitz gibt Werke von Max Slevogt an die Nachfahren von Julius Freund zurück - The Saarland Cultural Heritage Foundation returns Max Slevogt works to the heirs of Julius Freund". www.lootedart.com. Retrieved 15 October 2021.
External links
- Max Slevogt-Galery Schloss Villa Ludwigshöhe in Edenkoben
- Max Slevogt in the German National Library catalogue
- works by the artist at "Museumsportal Schleswig-Holstein"
- Slevogthof Neukastel (at Leinsweiler) (in German)
- German masters of the nineteenth century: paintings and drawings from the Federal Republic of Germany, a full text exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which contains material on Max Slevogt (no. 83–86)
- High-resolution images of 'Voyage to Egypt' series