Max Feldbauer

* 1869, Neumarkt/Oberpfalz 1948, Regensburg

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* 1869, Neumarkt/Oberpfalz, 1948, Regensburg

Max Feldbauer’s artistic training began in Munich at the School of Applied Arts, at the private academy of Simon Hollósy and at the Academy of Fine Art. In 1898, Max Feldbauer co-founded the artist group “Scholle” and worked as illustrator for the newspaper “Jugend”. Feldbauer was also a co-founder and committee member of the “New Secession“ in 1913. 1901–1915 he taught at the “Women‘s Academy” of the “Munich Society for Women Artists”. 1912–1922 he ran his own painting school near Dachau. He was awarded a professorship at the School of Applied Arts in Dresden, and later at the city‘s Academy of Fine Art where he became president in 1928. In the same year Feldbauer won a painting competition in Amsterdam. At the Olympic Games he was awarded a bronze medal. Max Feldbauer received Bavaria‘s Maximilian Medal for Science and Art in 1933. In the same year he had an exhibition ban imposed on his work and was forced to give up his position as president of the Dresden academy. Nonetheless in 1944, an exhibition of his graphic works took place at the House of German Art in Munich, where he was awarded the Goethe Medal.

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Bender, Ewald: s.v. „Feldbauer, Max“, in: Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, begründet von Ulrich Thieme und Felix Becker, hrsg. von Hans Vollmer, Bd. 11: Erman-Fiorenzo, Leipzig 1914, S. 362-363 Dürr, Bernd: Leo Putz, Max Feldbauer und der Kreis der „Scholle“ und „Jugend“ in Dachau um 1900, Dachau 1989