Max Uth (BerlLeben 1903-02 Geog Ludwig Meyn)

Gustav Alexander Max Uth (24 November 1863 in

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– 15 June 1914 in Hermannswerder,

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) was a German painter of landscapes and art teacher. Uth was the son of a manufacturer and enrolled at the

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in Berlin under

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. He opened his own atelier for women painters in 1897 in Berlin; among his students were Gertrud Berger (1870–1949), Laura Schaberg (1860 or 1866–1935), Sophie Wencke-Meinken (1874–1963) and

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electricity pavilion at the Paris Exposition Universelle in 1900 and in the German Pavilion at the

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in 1904. He was one of the founding members of the Berlin Secession in 1899, and one of the sixteen artists to leave it in 1902.

Notable works

* ''Am Bach. Sommerliche Stimmung, am Ufer eines Baches steht ein Angler''. (n.d.; oil on canvas; 70 x 70 cm) * ''Landsitz in der Mark''. (ca. 1900; oil on canvas; 88 x 99 cm) * ''Der Biergarten''. (ca. 1910; oil on canvas; 75,5 x 85 cm) * ''Dünenlandschaft''. (oil on canvas; 40 x 54 cm) kettererkunst.de
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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Uth, Max 1863 births 1914 deaths 19th-century German painters 19th-century German male artists German male painters Artists from Berlin