Max Ackerman

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@ Gallery, publishing house and book printing workshop Christoph Dürr in Munich. Since 1926, this unique juwel exists in Neuhausen, where Artilleriestraße and Hübnerstraße meet and create a small town square. In 1978, the gallery owner Christoph Dürr took over the printing works for the production of high-quality art catalogs and books. We may have only a few gallerists in Neuhausen, but a special one who runs his business beyond the commercial with an excellent connoisseur's eye and great love for the arts. The first thing that catches the eye in the gallery is an old Linotype. It`s immediately clear that not only art is shown, but also artisan work is done. More: http://www.galerie-ch-duerr.de/ The traditional book printing workshop is characterized by a unique ambience. An ensemble of all the essential components and equipment of manual letterpress printing, which are all still fully functional and in constant use. Exhibitions in the gallery for example with: Joseph Kosuth, Jan Koblasa, Martin Kippenberger, Max Ackermann, Ugo Dossi, Ludi Armbruster, Ernst Geitlinger and many more.

artist Info
Max Ackermann
(1887 Berlin - 1975 Unterlengenhardt, Black Forest)

German painter and graphic artist, Ackermann studies in Weimar with Henry van der Velde and in Dresden with Gotthardt Kuehl. He then goes to Munich to study at the Academy in the painting class of Franz von Stuck from 1905 to 1909. When the 25-year-old met the painter Adolph Hölzel in Stuttgart in 1912, it was he who encouraged Ackermann to create a non-objective painting and proved himself to be influential in his further artistic work. Parallel to the abstract paintings from 1912, however, Ackermann continues to paint objectively until the 1940s. The first solo exhibition of figurative and abstract paintings, pastels and drawings take place in 1924 in the Kunstgebäude Stuttgart. When the artist met Rudolf von Laban, the founder of abstract dance, in 1921, there arose a lively discussion about dance writing and counterpoint, which stimulated Ackermann to create rhythmic blind drawings. In his studio, Ackermann sets up a "Lehrwerkstätte für Neue Kunst", where he holds summer courses for young art teachers. In 1930 he founded a seminar for "Absolute Painting" at the Stuttgart Volkshochschule. Based on these seminar topics, Ackermann lectures three years later during a Hölzel exhibition in the Stuttgart gallery Valentien. When he was banned from teaching in 1936, he moved to Hornstaad on Lake Constance - a place that became a painter's colony. Also, Helmuth Macke, Otto Dix, and Erich Heckel settle here. The destruction of his studio by bombs in 1939 burned many of the painter's early works. After the war, Ackermann can present his work in the first exhibition in the Salon des Réalités in Paris. In 1949 he participated in the Zurich exhibition "Art in Germany 1930-49". In 1952 Ackermann organizes a seminar on painting and music with Wolfgang Fortner in Hornstaad. This is followed a year later, together with Hugo Häring and Kurt Leonhart the direction of another event that has painting and architecture on the subject. In 1956, the "Künstlerbund Baden-Württemberg" appoints Ackermann as successor to the late Willi Baumeister in the "Rat der Zehn". 1967 shows a retrospective painting of the artist from the years 1908 to 1967 in Koblenz, Kaiserslautern, Constance, Wolfsburg, and Cologne. In 1975 Ackermann died in Unterlengenhardt, where he was buried. Source Wikipedia