Max Brückner
Illustration — Brückner's 1894 painting for the final scene of Götterdämmerung • Illustration — Memorial in Coburg Heinrich Maximilian Brückner (14 March 1836 – 2 May 1919) was a German artist and set designer. He was born in Coburg in 1836, the son of Heinrich Brückner (1805–1892), who was the theatre painter at the Hoftheater (Court Theatre) in Coburg. In 1870, with his younger brother Gotthold Brückner (1844–1892), he founded the Brückner Brothers Studio for Scenic Stage Design, in Coburg.
Also recorded as Heinrich Maximilian Brückner · M. Brueckner
Max Brückner
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- 1836 · Coburg.
- Died
- 1919 · Coburg.
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- Germany
- Occupation
- painter · theatre designer
- Languages
- German
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Born at Coburg in 1836, died in Coburg in 1919.
The recorded working language is German. Work by Max Brückner is recorded in the collections of Deutsches Theatermuseum.
Set Design, *Götterdämmerung*, 1894
Max Brückner · Bühnenbildentwurf
Set Design, Deep Forest, Siegfried, Bayreuth Festival 1896
Max Brückner · Bühnenbildentwurf
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- 1.Bayreuther Festspiele, Spielplan – Die Aufführungen.
- 2.Delia Millar: The Victorian Watercolours in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen. Band 1. Wilson, London 1995, ISBN 0-85667-436-2, S. 139–141.
- 3.Meininger Museen -.
- 4.Cordula Mauß. Vom Grünen Hügel ins Markgräfliche Opernhaus: Kulissen des ersten Lohengrins der Bayreuther Festspiele von 1894. Blog der Bayerischen Schlösserverwaltung. 2023-07-13.
- 5.Maria Blenk, Tanja Kohwagner-Nikolai, Cordula Mauß, Florian Schröter. Barocke Theaterwelten: Markgräfliches Opernhaus Bayreuth: Welterbe & Museum. 2023. 978-3-941637-81-8.
- 6.Ernennungsurkunde zum Ehrenritter der St. Mauritius Ritterschaft.
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