For the German musician born Maximilian Lenz, see WestBam. For the German historian, see Max Lenz.
Maximilian Lenz (4 October 1860 – 19 May 1948) was an Austrian painter, graphic artist and sculptor. Lenz was a founding member of the Vienna Secession; during his career's most important period, he was a Symbolist, but later his work became increasingly naturalistic. He worked in a variety of media, including oils, watercolours, lithography and metal reliefs.
In 1897, Lenz left the Künstlerhaus to become a founding member of the Vienna Secession,[2] and his work for the group's first exhibition was hailed as "outstanding".[3] His 1899 painting, A World (Eine Welt, also translated as A Day Dream), draws on the time's prevailing currents, including dreamlike and fantastic imagery painted in intense colour.[4] It was shown at the Fourth Exhibition of the Vienna Secession in spring 1899,[5] and received critical praise for its "graceful charm and dreamy yet sparkling beauty"[6] and its mood of "pure grace and musical euphony".[7] The painting was also shown in winter 1911-12 with the Munich Secession.[8]
Having shown his picture On the Way to Wonderland at the Tenth Exhibition of the Vienna Secession in 1901[9] and the Thirteenth Exhibition in spring 1902,[10] at the Secession's Fourteenth Exhibition in the summer of that year (the 'Beethoven exhibition') he showed a number of reliefs in various metals, which were noted as beautiful and inventive.[11] Some of his copper panels were also shown at the 1904 World's Fair in St Louis.[12]
Summer Lust (1906)
However, a foray, together with various other Secession artists, into woodcuts for the Beethoven exhibition catalogue was panned as "rough" and more like the work of an amateur than an experienced painter, albeit enthusiastic and not totally without merit.[13]
With Gustav Klimt, Lenz visited Ravenna in the winter of 1903-04, where they saw and were influenced by the golden mosaics.[14] At the Twentieth Exhibition in 1904, Lenz's painting Iduna's Apples, was considered to be one of the highlights amongst the paintings shown, along with the works of Klimt and Rudolf von Alt. The large painting, similar in style to Aubrey Beardsley, created a "gorgeous" effect of gold and black: a black-haired woman sits in a lush landscape, wearing only a golden crown and sat on a golden cloak, holding Iduna's apple—also golden—in her hands.[15] Within the Secession, for the first decade Lenz was a Pre-Raphaelite influence; after 1910, his work showed more naturalism, and he moved away from the foreground after 1918.[1]
Art nouveau
A Song of Spring (1913)
Lenz served on the Secession's official committee in 1905[16] and again in 1906.[17] He also exhibited with the Secession in spring 1906, showing the Forest King and the Wailing Maiden;[18] in 1907;[19] in 1908 at the Twenty-Ninth Exhibition;[20] in 1909 and 1910, showing the playful painting Marionnetes;[21][22] in 1911, showing Concert;[23] in 1913;[24] and as part of a collective exhibition in 1941.[25]
His 1913 painting A Song of Spring was influenced by the dancer Isadora Duncan's 1904 stay in Vienna, sharing her symbolic themes of cyclic renewal and rebirth and featuring mediaeval costume. These ideas and a connection with dance are also prominent within Klimt's work, and the Symbolist movement as a whole.[26] Lenz also painted religious themes, including The Baptism of the Ethiopians.[27]
Woman in White Beneath a Fruited Tree and Woman in Yellow Beneath a Bare-branched Tree. Pen, ink and gouache designs for stained glass windows, c. 1900, 11.8 x 14.7 cm and 11.8 x 14.2 cm. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (accession numbers: 1990.606 and 1990.607).[31][32]
^"Ordentliche Mitglieder" [Ordinary Members]. Ver Sacrum. 1: 28. 1898.
^Wilhelm Schölermann (21 April 1898). "Die erste Ausstellung der "Vereinigung bildender Künstler Österreichs"". Kunstchronik: Wochenschrift für Kunst und Kunstgewerbe. 22: 355.
^"Liste der verkauften Werke". Ver Sacrum. 6: 32. 1899.
^"Studio-Talk". Studio: International Art (76): 131–132. 1899.
^Wilhelm Schölermann (27 April 1899). "Die Frühjahrs-Ausstellungen der Secession und des Künstlerhauses in Wien". Kunstchronik: Wochenschrift für Kunst und Kunstgewerbe. 23: 356.
^Georg Jacob Wolf (15 March 1912). "Winterausstellung der Münchener Secession". Die Kunst für alle: Malerei, Plastik, Graphik, Architektur. 12: 274.
^"Liste der verkauften Werke". Ver Sacrum. 12: 209–210. 1901.
^B Zuckerkandl (1 April 1902). "Wiener Ausstellungen". Die Kunst für alle: Malerei, Plastik, Graphik, Architektur. 13: 297–299.
^Joseph August Lux (1902). "Klinger's Beethoven und die moderne Raum-Kunst". Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration: 480.
^"Von Ausstellungen und Sammlungen". Die Kunst für alle: Malerei, Plastik, Graphik, Architektur. 12: 286. 15 March 1904.
^Karl Michael Kuzmany (1908). "Jüngere österreichische Graphiker, [2]: II. Holzschitt". Die Graphischen Künste: 73–74.
^Günther Berger (2009). Relazioni. Peter Lang. p. 32. ISBN9783631569221.
^Ludwig Hevesi (29 April 1904). "Wiener Brief". Kunstchronik: Wochenschrift für Kunst und Kunstgewerbe. 23: 373–374.
^"Vermischtes". Kunstchronik: Wochenschrift für Kunst und Kunstgewerbe. 24: 399. 19 May 1905.
^"Vereine". Kunstchronik: Wochenschrift für Kunst und Kunstgewerbe. 26: 411. 25 May 1906.
^Karl Michael Kuzmany (1907). "Die Frühjahr-Ausstellung der Wiener Secession". Die Kunst für alle: Malerei, Plastik, Graphik, Architektur. 17: 398.
^"Ausstellungen". Kunstchronik: Wochenschrift für Kunst und Kunstgewerbe. 6: 90. 23 November 1906.
^Arpad Weixlgärtner (1908). "Ausstellungen". Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für vervielfältigende Kunst. 2: 29.
^Karl Michael Kuzmany. "Die Frühjahr-Ausstellung der Wiener Secession". Die Kunst für alle: Malerei, Plastik, Graphik, Architektur. 17: 396.
^Karl Michael Kuzmany (1 June 1910). "Die Frühjahr-Ausstellung der Wiener Secession". 17: 386. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
^Karl Michael Kuzmany (1 July 1911). "Die Frühjahrausstellungen der Wiener Secession und des Hagenbundes". 19: 436. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
^Josef Foinesics (15 June 1913). "Wiener Frühjahrausstellungen". Die Kunst für alle: Malerei, Plastik, Graphik, Architektur. 18: 414.
^"Anhang". Die Kunst für alle: Malerei, Plastik, Graphik, Architektur. 1: r. 1 October 1941.
^ ab"Frühlingsreigen or A Song of Spring". Peter Nahum At The Leicester Galleries. Retrieved 2014-04-04.
^Hugo Haberfeld (1906). "Religiöse Kunst in der Wiener Secession". Kunst und Künstler: Illustrierte Monatsschrift für bildende Kunst und Kunstgewerbe: 169.
^"Subscribe to the 8th War Loan". World Digital Library. 10 February 2014. Retrieved 2014-04-04.
^Hannes Stekl (2000). Bürgerliche Familien: Lebenswege im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Böhlau Verlag Wien. p. 73. ISBN9783205989417.
H Buchner Kopper (2001). Maximilian Lenz. Ein Maler im Licht/Schatten Guatav Klimts (dissertation). Klagenfurt University.
January 07, 2023
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For the German musician born Maximilian Lenz see WestBam For the German historian see Max Lenz Maximilian Lenz 4 October 1860 19 May 1948 was an Austrian painter graphic artist and sculptor Lenz was a founding member of the Vienna Secession during his career s most important period he was a Symbolist but later his work became increasingly naturalistic He worked in a variety of media including oils watercolours lithography and metal reliefs A World 1899 Contents 1 Life 2 Art nouveau 3 Selected works 4 Gallery 5 ReferencesLife Edit Copper relief from the Fourteenth Exhibition of the Vienna Secession 1902 Lenz was born in Vienna He studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Vienna then at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienner Carl Wurzinger and Christian Griepenkerl A member of the Vienna Kunstlerhaus spent the early 1890s in South America designing banknotes in Buenos Aires 1 In 1897 Lenz left the Kunstlerhaus to become a founding member of the Vienna Secession 2 and his work for the group s first exhibition was hailed as outstanding 3 His 1899 painting A World Eine Welt also translated as A Day Dream draws on the time s prevailing currents including dreamlike and fantastic imagery painted in intense colour 4 It was shown at the Fourth Exhibition of the Vienna Secession in spring 1899 5 and received critical praise for its graceful charm and dreamy yet sparkling beauty 6 and its mood of pure grace and musical euphony 7 The painting was also shown in winter 1911 12 with the Munich Secession 8 Having shown his picture On the Way to Wonderland at the Tenth Exhibition of the Vienna Secession in 1901 9 and the Thirteenth Exhibition in spring 1902 10 at the Secession s Fourteenth Exhibition in the summer of that year the Beethoven exhibition he showed a number of reliefs in various metals which were noted as beautiful and inventive 11 Some of his copper panels were also shown at the 1904 World s Fair in St Louis 12 Summer Lust 1906 However a foray together with various other Secession artists into woodcuts for the Beethoven exhibition catalogue was panned as rough and more like the work of an amateur than an experienced painter albeit enthusiastic and not totally without merit 13 With Gustav Klimt Lenz visited Ravenna in the winter of 1903 04 where they saw and were influenced by the golden mosaics 14 At the Twentieth Exhibition in 1904 Lenz s painting Iduna s Apples was considered to be one of the highlights amongst the paintings shown along with the works of Klimt and Rudolf von Alt The large painting similar in style to Aubrey Beardsley created a gorgeous effect of gold and black a black haired woman sits in a lush landscape wearing only a golden crown and sat on a golden cloak holding Iduna s apple also golden in her hands 15 Within the Secession for the first decade Lenz was a Pre Raphaelite influence after 1910 his work showed more naturalism and he moved away from the foreground after 1918 1 Art nouveau Edit A Song of Spring 1913 Lenz served on the Secession s official committee in 1905 16 and again in 1906 17 He also exhibited with the Secession in spring 1906 showing the Forest King and the Wailing Maiden 18 in 1907 19 in 1908 at the Twenty Ninth Exhibition 20 in 1909 and 1910 showing the playful painting Marionnetes 21 22 in 1911 showing Concert 23 in 1913 24 and as part of a collective exhibition in 1941 25 His 1913 painting A Song of Spring was influenced by the dancer Isadora Duncan s 1904 stay in Vienna sharing her symbolic themes of cyclic renewal and rebirth and featuring mediaeval costume These ideas and a connection with dance are also prominent within Klimt s work and the Symbolist movement as a whole 26 Lenz also painted religious themes including The Baptism of the Ethiopians 27 During World War I Lenz created several posters advertising Austro Hungarian war bonds 28 In 1926 he married painter Ida Kupelwieser 1870 1927 the daughter of the jurist Karl Kupelwieser 29 He left the Secession and rejoined the Kunstlerhaus in 1938 1 Selected works Edit A 1917 poster advertising war bonds designed by Lenz See also Works by Maximilian Lenz Spring Colour lithograph 1898 13 97 x 15 08 cm Museum of Fine Arts Boston accession number 1991 847 30 A World Oil on canvas 1899 121 5 x 186 0 cm Museum of Fine Arts Budapest accession number 20 B 4 Woman in White Beneath a Fruited Tree and Woman in Yellow Beneath a Bare branched Tree Pen ink and gouache designs for stained glass windows c 1900 11 8 x 14 7 cm and 11 8 x 14 2 cm Museum of Fine Arts Boston accession numbers 1990 606 and 1990 607 31 32 The Artist s Studio Oil on canvas before 1902 47 7 x 57 7 cm Museum of Fine Arts Budapest accession number 39 B 33 Summer Lust Oil on canvas 1906 74 5 x 100 cm 34 Spring Oil on canvas c 1904 174 2 x 365 7 cm National Museum Wales accession number NMW A 589 35 A Song of Spring Oil on canvas 1913 162 00 x 201 00 cm 26 Gallery Edit Poster advertising war bonds 1917 Brass relief set in marble and wood from the Fourteenth Exhibition of the Vienna Secession 1902 Young women with flowers 1898 Lithograph for Ver Sacrum Intarsia in beaten brass from the Fourteenth Exhibition 1902 Another war bonds poster 1917 Copper relief shown at the Fourteenth Exhibition 1902 Marionnetes c 1909 Crying woman sat under a tree 1898 Lithograph for Ver Sacrum Spring Yearning 1898 Illustration for Ver Sacrum The Forest King and the Wailing Maiden c 1907 References Edit a b c Lenz Maximilian Osterreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815 1950 Vol 5 1970 pp 139 140 Ordentliche Mitglieder Ordinary Members Ver Sacrum 1 28 1898 Wilhelm Scholermann 21 April 1898 Die erste Ausstellung der Vereinigung bildender Kunstler Osterreichs Kunstchronik Wochenschrift fur Kunst und Kunstgewerbe 22 355 a b A World Museum of Fine Arts Budapest Archived from the original on 2015 09 24 Retrieved 2014 04 04 Liste der verkauften Werke Ver Sacrum 6 32 1899 Studio Talk Studio International Art 76 131 132 1899 Wilhelm Scholermann 27 April 1899 Die Fruhjahrs Ausstellungen der Secession und des Kunstlerhauses in Wien Kunstchronik Wochenschrift fur Kunst und Kunstgewerbe 23 356 Georg Jacob Wolf 15 March 1912 Winterausstellung der Munchener Secession Die Kunst fur alle Malerei Plastik Graphik Architektur 12 274 Liste der verkauften Werke Ver Sacrum 12 209 210 1901 B Zuckerkandl 1 April 1902 Wiener Ausstellungen Die Kunst fur alle Malerei Plastik Graphik Architektur 13 297 299 Joseph August Lux 1902 Klinger s Beethoven und die moderne Raum Kunst Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration 480 Von Ausstellungen und Sammlungen Die Kunst fur alle Malerei Plastik Graphik Architektur 12 286 15 March 1904 Karl Michael Kuzmany 1908 Jungere osterreichische Graphiker 2 II Holzschitt Die Graphischen Kunste 73 74 Gunther Berger 2009 Relazioni Peter Lang p 32 ISBN 9783631569221 Ludwig Hevesi 29 April 1904 Wiener Brief Kunstchronik Wochenschrift fur Kunst und Kunstgewerbe 23 373 374 Vermischtes Kunstchronik Wochenschrift fur Kunst und Kunstgewerbe 24 399 19 May 1905 Vereine Kunstchronik Wochenschrift fur Kunst und Kunstgewerbe 26 411 25 May 1906 Karl Michael Kuzmany 1907 Die Fruhjahr Ausstellung der Wiener Secession Die Kunst fur alle Malerei Plastik Graphik Architektur 17 398 Ausstellungen Kunstchronik Wochenschrift fur Kunst und Kunstgewerbe 6 90 23 November 1906 Arpad Weixlgartner 1908 Ausstellungen Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft fur vervielfaltigende Kunst 2 29 Karl Michael Kuzmany Die Fruhjahr Ausstellung der Wiener Secession Die Kunst fur alle Malerei Plastik Graphik Architektur 17 396 Karl Michael Kuzmany 1 June 1910 Die Fruhjahr Ausstellung der Wiener Secession 17 386 a href Template Cite journal html title Template Cite journal cite journal a Cite journal requires journal help Karl Michael Kuzmany 1 July 1911 Die Fruhjahrausstellungen der Wiener Secession und des Hagenbundes 19 436 a href Template Cite journal html title Template Cite journal cite journal a Cite journal requires journal help Josef Foinesics 15 June 1913 Wiener Fruhjahrausstellungen Die Kunst fur alle Malerei Plastik Graphik Architektur 18 414 Anhang Die Kunst fur alle Malerei Plastik Graphik Architektur 1 r 1 October 1941 a b Fruhlingsreigen or A Song of Spring Peter Nahum At The Leicester Galleries Retrieved 2014 04 04 Hugo Haberfeld 1906 Religiose Kunst in der Wiener Secession Kunst und Kunstler Illustrierte Monatsschrift fur bildende Kunst und Kunstgewerbe 169 Subscribe to the 8th War Loan World Digital Library 10 February 2014 Retrieved 2014 04 04 Hannes Stekl 2000 Burgerliche Familien Lebenswege im 19 und 20 Jahrhundert Bohlau Verlag Wien p 73 ISBN 9783205989417 Spring Museum of Fine Arts Boston Retrieved 2014 04 04 Woman in White Beneath a Fruited Tree Museum of Fine Arts Boston Retrieved 2014 04 04 Woman in Yellow Beneath a Bare branched Tree Museum of Fine Arts Boston Retrieved 2014 04 04 The Artis s Studio Museum of Fine Arts Budapest Retrieved 2014 04 04 Maximilian Lenz 198th Auction Valuables im Kinsky Archived from the original 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