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Max Ackermann, Abstraction in White and Black Structures reminiscent of a pipe system against a black background, woodcut on paper, mid-20th century, signed "Max Ackermann" in pencil below the image on the right, image dimensions approx. 32.2 x 24 cm, sheet dimensions approx. 46.5 x 35 cm. Artist info: important German painter and graphic artist. Painter and graphic artist (1887 Berlin - 1975 Unterlengenhardt/Black Forest), pioneer of abstract art in Germany, childhood in Ilmenau/Thuringia, from 1903 trained as a porcelain modeller in a porcelain factory in Ilmenau, 1906-07 studied with Henry van de Velde at the Weimar art school on a grand ducal scholarship, Hans Olde, Ludwig von Hofmann and Sascha Schneider, 1908-09 studies at the Dresden Academy under Richard Müller and Gotthardt Kuehl, 1909-10 studies at the Munich Academy under Franz von Stuck, from 1912 studies at the Stuttgart Academy and pupil of Adolf Hölzel, 1915-17 military service in the First World War, from 1920s onwards, freelance work. World War I, freelance work in Stuttgart from the 1920s and foundation of a "training workshop for new art" in 1921, study trip to Paris in 1926, member of the Reich Association of German Visual Artists, maintained numerous contacts with important artists, including Piet Mondrian, Adolf Loos, Wassily Kandinsky and George Grosz, foundation of the seminar for "Absolute Painting" at the Stuttgart Adult Education Centre in 1930, 1936-45 ostracised as "degenerate", banned from teaching and exhibiting and some of his works confiscated, relocated to Hornstaad on Lake Constance and spent time painting in Hemmenhofen, his studio in Stuttgart destroyed in 1943, lecturer at the Stuttgart Adult Education Centre from 1946, awarded the title of professor and moved to Stuttgart in 1957, guest of honour at the German Academy in Rome Villa Massimo in 1964, received numerous honours, including the Ströher Prize in 1950. including the Ströher Prize for non-objective art in 1950 and the Federal Cross of Merit in 1972, worked in Stuttgart, Lake Constance and Bad Liebenzell, source: Vollmer, AKL, "Franz von Stuck und seine Schüler", matriculation of the Munich Academy, Dressler and Internet.

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Max Ackermann, Abstraction in White and Black Structures reminiscent of a pipe system against a black background, woodcut on paper, mid-20th century, signed "Max Ackermann" in pencil below the image on the right, image dimensions approx. 32.2 x 24 cm, sheet dimensions approx. 46.5 x 35 cm. Artist info: important German painter and graphic artist. Painter and graphic artist (1887 Berlin - 1975 Unterlengenhardt/Black Forest), pioneer of abstract art in Germany, childhood in Ilmenau/Thuringia, from 1903 trained as a porcelain modeller in a porcelain factory in Ilmenau, 1906-07 studied with Henry van de Velde at the Weimar art school on a grand ducal scholarship, Hans Olde, Ludwig von Hofmann and Sascha Schneider, 1908-09 studies at the Dresden Academy under Richard Müller and Gotthardt Kuehl, 1909-10 studies at the Munich Academy under Franz von Stuck, from 1912 studies at the Stuttgart Academy and pupil of Adolf Hölzel, 1915-17 military service in the First World War, from 1920s onwards, freelance work. World War I, freelance work in Stuttgart from the 1920s and foundation of a "training workshop for new art" in 1921, study trip to Paris in 1926, member of the Reich Association of German Visual Artists, maintained numerous contacts with important artists, including Piet Mondrian, Adolf Loos, Wassily Kandinsky and George Grosz, foundation of the seminar for "Absolute Painting" at the Stuttgart Adult Education Centre in 1930, 1936-45 ostracised as "degenerate", banned from teaching and exhibiting and some of his works confiscated, relocated to Hornstaad on Lake Constance and spent time painting in Hemmenhofen, his studio in Stuttgart destroyed in 1943, lecturer at the Stuttgart Adult Education Centre from 1946, awarded the title of professor and moved to Stuttgart in 1957, guest of honour at the German Academy in Rome Villa Massimo in 1964, received numerous honours, including the Ströher Prize in 1950. including the Ströher Prize for non-objective art in 1950 and the Federal Cross of Merit in 1972, worked in Stuttgart, Lake Constance and Bad Liebenzell, source: Vollmer, AKL, "Franz von Stuck und seine Schüler", matriculation of the Munich Academy, Dressler and Internet.

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