Max Stern
1872 Düsseldorf – 1943 Düsseldorf
Short information about the artist
The Düsseldorf Max Star is one of the few German painters, which have largely approached French Impressionism.
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More information about the artist
The Düsseldorf Max Star is one of the few German painters, which have largely approached French Impressionism.
Painting
Urban image topics, people busy places in a bright and coloured colorite characterize the best compositions Max Sterns and give them an international flair shortly after the turn of the century. Again and again, Max Star holds in apparent snapshots cutouts in parks and cafes that show elegantly dressed ladies and gentlemen and nanny with their protégés. Often, as a backdrop lively places of Düsseldorf, such as the Hofgarten, the Ananasberg or the Grafenberger Allee. On numerous travels Max Stern had met the European, especially French tendencies of open-air painting and processed independently and unmistakably in his works: the vitality of the brush stroke, the light-saturated colorite and the blue shadows are typical marks of French Impressionism. In German painting there is hardly a parallel to the light-flooded paintings Max Star.
Biography
Although the painter studied in Düsseldorf (1888-92) and Munich (1892-94) and engaged in domestic artist associations, he was hardly influenced by the domestic tradition. His actual teachers were the great French: Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir, Eduard Manet and above all Paul Cézanne.
Meaning of his painting
In the Rheinische Art after 1900, these paintings stand for the departure in a new style, which features Richard Bloos, Willy Lucas and Max Clarenbach more followers and thus a broader base.