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Max Linde (14 June 1862 – 23 April 1940, in
Exhibition ''Kunst und Mäzenatentum'' Lübeck 1997
1862 births 1940 deaths Physicians from Lübeck German art collectors 19th-century art collectors 20th-century art collectors German ophthalmologists {{Germany-scientist-stub
Max Linde (14 June 1862 – 23 April 1940, in Lübeck
Lübeck (; Low German also ), officially the Hanseatic City of Lübeck (german: Hansestadt Lübeck), is a city in Northern Germany. With around 217,000 inhabitants, Lübeck is the second-largest city on the German Baltic coast and in the state ...
) was an ophthalmologist who is best known as a patron and art collector of the early 20th century. He was an important patron of the painter Edvard Munch, among others. He had the most extensive private collection of sculptures by Auguste Rodin in Germany
Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ...
. In 1903 he commissioned a monumental cast of Rodin's ''The Thinker
''The Thinker'' (french: Le Penseur) is a bronze sculpture by Auguste Rodin, usually placed on a stone pedestal. The work depicts a nude male figure of heroic size sitting on a rock. He is seen leaning over, his right elbow placed on his left t ...
''. Munch painted ''The Thinker'' in his garden in 1907. His brothers Hermann and Heinrich Heinrich may refer to:
People
* Heinrich (given name), a given name (including a list of people with the name)
* Heinrich (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name)
*Hetty (given name), a given name (including a list of peo ...
were painters.
Works
* Max Linde: ''Edvard Munch und die Kunst der Zukunft'', Berlin 1902References
Further reading
* Otto Grautoff: ''Lübeck'', Reihe ''Stätten der Kultur'', Vol. 9, Leipzig 1908, p. 156 ff *Carl Georg Heise
Carl Georg Heise (28 June 1890 – 11 August 1979) was a German art historian. From 1945 to 1955 he was director of the Kunsthalle Hamburg.
Life
Heise was born into a Hamburg mercantile family with artistic interests. In about 1906 Aby Warburg b ...
: ''Edvard Munch und seine Beziehungen zu Lübeck'', in: Der Wagen 1927, p. 82-90
* Friedrich v. Rohden: ''Von alten Lübecker Ärzten'', in: Der Wagen 1960, p. 83 (90ff)
* Lothar Linde: ''Erinnerungen an Marie Linde'', in: Der Wagen 1961, p. 101 ff
* Arne Eggum: ''Der Linde-Fries - Edvard Munch und sein erster deutscher Mäzen, Dr. Max Linde'', aus dem Norwegischen von Alken Bruns, Veröffentlichung XX des Senat der Hansestadt Lübeck - Amt für Kultur, Lübeck 1982
* Stefan Pucks: ''Linde, Maximilian (Max)'' in: Biographisches Lexikon für Schleswig-Holstein und Lübeck, Band 11, Neumünster 2000, pp. 230–233 , korrigierte
External links
*Exhibition ''Kunst und Mäzenatentum'' Lübeck 1997
1862 births 1940 deaths Physicians from Lübeck German art collectors 19th-century art collectors 20th-century art collectors German ophthalmologists {{Germany-scientist-stub