Max Wissner's love of life in art

He was born in Bohemia in 1873 - coincidentally, due to his father's work - but at the end of the century, after training as a decorative painter, Max Wissner came to Regensburg for the first time, where he lived permanently from 1918 and worked as a freelance artist, surrounded by a highly stimulating circle of friends.

Throughout his life, he devoted himself artistically to Impressionism, which he infused with a decorative and often humorous flavour, which he expressed in his very own and unmistakable style. In many cases, the desire to compose his works led to a perfectly formed spectacle and an homage to the sensual pleasures of life, always finely nuanced in colour, porously contoured and chalky in surface character.

He found countless motifs in Regensburg, the Upper Palatinate and Lower Bavaria, among the people, the landscape and the architecture, so his name is inextricably linked with the city on the Danube, where Max Wissner died on 14 June 1959.

Last edited on 06.11.2024