Max Oppenheimer (1 July 1885 – 19 May 1954), later known as MOPP, was an
Austrian
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painter and graphic artist.
Life
Oppenheimer was born in
Vienna
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on 1 July 1885. He studied from 1900 to 1903 at the
Akademie der Bildenden Künste
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History
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in that city studying under
Christian Griepenkerl
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and
Siegmund L'Allemand, and then – from 1903 to 1906 – at the
Academy of Fine Arts
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of
Prague
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, where he studied under
Franz Thiele.
Along with
Egon Schiele, with whom he shared a studio in 1910 and
Oskar Kokoschka
Oskar Kokoschka (1 March 1886 – 22 February 1980) was an Austrian artist, poet, playwright, and teacher best known for his intense expressionistic portraits and landscapes, as well as his theories on vision that influenced the Viennese Expres ...
he was considered as being one of Austria's leading
avant-garde
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artists.
His work was influenced by several different movements including
expressionism,
cubism and
futurism. His work was included in 2 art exhibitions in 1908 and 1909 in Vienna co-organised by
Gustav Klimt.
His first one-man show was held in Munich at the
Moderne Galerie in 1910. He was known for his portraits of contemporary cultural figures such as
Thomas Mann
Paul Thomas Mann ( , ; ; 6 June 1875 – 12 August 1955) was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. His highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novell ...
and
Arnold Schoenberg.
References
Further reading
* Echte, Bernhard, ed. Max Oppenheimer (MOPP), 1885–1954: Gemälde und Graphiken. Exh. cat., Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Munich. Baden: Stiftung Langmatt Sidney und Jenny Brown, 1995.
*
Tobias G. Natter (ed.): MOPP: Max Oppenheimer, 1885–1954. Exh. cat. Vienna: Jewish Museum Vienna, 1994.
* Pabst, Michael. Max Oppenheimer: Verzeichnis der Druckgrafik. Munich: Galerie Michael Pabst, 1993.
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19th-century Austrian painters
19th-century Austrian male artists
1885 births
1954 deaths