Max Zimmermann
August Maximilian Zimmermann, painter and lithographer, was born in Zittau, in Saxony on 7 July 1811. His father, the impresario Karl Friedrich August Zimmermann, brought him up as a musician, but in his leisure he practised lithography. At the age of twenty-three he abandoned music to devote himself entirely to lithography, and joining his brother Albert in Munich, studied drawing under his direction.
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Max Zimmermann
Max Zimmermann · Vorstand der Deutschen Jahrhundertausstellung (Herausgeber): „Katalog zur Ausstellung deutscher Kunst aus der Zeit von 1775–1875 in der Königlichen Nationalgalerie Berlin.“. Verlag F. Bruckmann AG, M · Public domain
- Born
- Max Zimmermann was born on 7 July 1811. · Zittau.
- Died
- Max Zimmermann died on 29 December 1878. · Munich.
- Nationality
- Kingdom of Saxony.
- Occupation
- Max Zimmermann is recorded with the occupation painter.
- Languages
- German.
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August Maximilian Zimmermann, painter and lithographer, was born in Zittau, in Saxony on 7 July 1811. His father, the impresario Karl Friedrich August Zimmermann, brought him up as a musician, but in his leisure he practised lithography. At the age of twenty-three he abandoned music to devote himself entirely to lithography, and joining his brother Albert in Munich, studied drawing under his direction.
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Max Zimmermann (1811–1878) was an artist, landscape painter and lithographer, among other activities, a national of the Kingdom of Saxony. The artist was born in Zittau and died in Munich. Max Zimmermann worked in Munich.
Languages used include German. Works are held at Bavarian State Painting Collections, Belvedere and Führermuseum, among others.
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He finally took to landscape painting, which he practised with some success. His subjects were chiefly forest scenes, studies of trees, and the like. The Neue Pinakothek at Munich has three of his pictures. He died in Munich in 1878. Zimmermann was from an artistic family; besides Albert, his brothers Robert and Richard also became painters.
Max Zimmermann is recorded with the occupation landscape painter. Recorded with the occupation lithographer. Recorded with the occupation musician. Recorded with the occupation artist. Recorded as painter, lithographer, musician and artist.
Max Zimmermann, August Maximilian Zimmermann - Landschaft mit Eichen - WAF 1216 - Bavarian State Painting Collections
Max Zimmermann
Max Zimmermann, August Maximilian Zimmermann - Waldlandschaft - 41 - Österreichische Galerie Belvedere
Max Zimmermann · https: digital.belvedere.at/objects/5720/waldlandschaft
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1811
Max Zimmermann was born on 7 July 1811.
1878
Max Zimmermann died on 29 December 1878.
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Max Zimmermann was born at Zittau.
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Max Zimmermann died at Munich.
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