Max Doerner (1 April 1870 in
Burghausen – 1 March 1939 in
Munich
Munich is the capital and most populous city of Bavaria, Germany. As of 30 November 2024, its population was 1,604,384, making it the third-largest city in Germany after Berlin and Hamburg. Munich is the largest city in Germany that is no ...
) was a German artist and art theorist.
Doerner's artistic education was at the
Academy of Fine Arts Munich where he studied under
Johann Caspar Herterich and
Wilhelm von Diez. His style was
impressionistic
Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement characterized by visible brush strokes, open Composition (visual arts), composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage ...
. He travelled around Europe, in particular to the Low Countries and Italy, and studied the old techniques of painting. He is most noted for his work ''The Materials of the Artist and Their Use in Painting'', first published in 1921.
His approach inspired the founding of the
Doerner Institute.
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He was also an instructor at the Munich Academy, where his students included
Karl Gatermann the Younger.
See also
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List of German painters
This is a list of German painters.
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* Hans von Aachen (1552–1615)
* Aatifi (born 1965)
* Karl Abt (painter), Karl Abt (1899–1985)
* Tomma Abts (born 1967)
* Andreas Achenbach (1815–1910)
* Oswald ...
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Mischtechnik
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19th-century German painters
19th-century German male artists
German male painters
20th-century German painters
20th-century German male artists
1870 births
1939 deaths
German art educators
People from Burghausen, Altötting
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