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Max Linde (14 June 1862 – 23 April 1940, in
Lübeck
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) 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
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.
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 1902
References
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
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