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Colombo and Corneille Max - the forgotten painter brothers

2020-12-28T21:07:47.797Z


Corneille (1875-1924) and Colombo Max (1877-1970) - two Ammerland artists who stood in the shadow of their father Gabriel.


Corneille (1875-1924) and Colombo Max (1877-1970) - two Ammerland artists who stood in the shadow of their father Gabriel.

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- Ammerland is a place that exerts a great fascination on artists.

The humorist Loriot, who lived and worked here for decades, spoke of the “incomparable atmosphere” in the old, unspoilt village.

In a series we remember some of the artists who were inspired here, be they locals or newcomers.

Today: Corneille (1875-1924) and Colombo Max (1877-1970).

Corneille and Colombo, sons of the painter prince Gabriel von Max (1840 - 1915), stand in the shadow of their famous father.

They are worth being perceived as independent artists.

Both placed their focus on landscape painting: their home Ammerland and Lake Starnberg offered them many motifs.

Colombo in particular, which was given a longer life, was often seen rowing out on the lake in the early hours of the morning with hat and cape in any weather.

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Corneille Max

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The older of the two painter brothers, Corneille, was born on May 12, 1875.

In the same year the family moves into the summer house on Südliche Seestrasse, the "Villa Max".

The family lives in the city in winter (in what was then the painter's quarter on what is now Paul-Heyse-Strasse) and by the lake in summer.

Like his brother, Corneille received his first artistic training from his father, later from Wilhelm von Diez and Anton Azbé.

In 1905 he married Wilhelmine Gedon ("Stora"), daughter of the famous Munich architect Lorenz Gedon, who decorated Herrenchiemsee Palace for Ludwig II.

As members of the “Königlich Privilegierte Künstlergenossenschaft”, Corneille and Colombo were given the opportunity to exhibit their works on Munich's Maximiliansstrasse even before the First World War.

In 1915 Corneille suffered a war gas injury at the front in Flanders.

He was released from military service and concentrated on portrait painting, especially portraits of children.

He dies on February 22nd, 1924.

The rumor has been around for a long time that it is a long-term consequence of gas poisoning.

Pleurisy is more likely.

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Colombo Max

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Colombo Max was born on May 10, 1877.

His father also introduced him to painting at an early age.

In 1891 he and his brother were among the founders of the Ammerland rowing club, for which Colombo designed numerous posters.

In addition to training as a painter in Munich, he is often drawn to Italy.

In 1910 Colombo married the graphic artist and dancer Paula Schmid, of whom it is still said in Ammerland today that she invented the Sarotti-Mohr.

She brings son Thomas into the marriage, whom Colombo adopts: he is later murdered by the Nazis as a resistance fighter for the "Freedom Campaign Bavaria".

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Colombo Max, also deployed on the Western Front, was spared a serious war injury during the First World War.

Although it was critical of the regime, the Nazis did not classify Colombo's work as “degenerate”, perhaps because of its conservative, naturalistic painting style, which was apparently perceived as “German”.

In 1967 the 90th birthday is celebrated in the house "Rösl" on Martinshöhe in Ammerland.

The popular Colombo Max dies on September 5th. The funeral speech is given by friend and neighbor Hubert Rank, a close friend of the family.

The Max brothers stay away from the progressive artist associations of their peers

Art historian Ulrike Eichler

In the exhibition catalog of the Ostuferschutzverband (see box), the art historian Ulrike Eichler emphasizes the distance to modernism of Franz Marc.

"The Max brothers stay away from the progressive artists' associations of their peers," she says.

At Corneille she pays tribute to the children's portraits, which are given a more general meaning through allegorical titles such as “Spring” or “Joy of Life”.

The landscapes of Colombo are deeply rooted in the love of home as well as in the Christian faith and testify to a "attentive, observing closeness to nature".

The pictures of the Max brothers still impress every viewer today, across the ages.

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Read also: Elisabeth Biron, an old school painter

Source: merkur

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