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Albert Maennchen (born 30 May 1873 in Rudolstadt; † 12 January 1935 in Berlin) was a German painter, representative of the decorative and monumental painting and fresco painter.

Life

Albert was born on 30 males May 1873 in Rudolstadt Thuringian born. His parents were the master tanner males Carl and his wife, Emilie, born Güntsche. Albert was the third of eight children - his brother Adolf, Gustav, Albert and Louis later became a painter or any painter. The first gave art lessons to the children's mother. Albert's older brother, twelve years, the landscape and genre painter Adolf males (1860-1920), later took over the role of father and took the family was strongly dependent on alcohol after Steglitz, when the father left behind.

Albert Maennchen was able to complete primary school in the spring of 1888 and began a two-year apprenticeship with the painter in Berlin painter Carl Lange. Until 1893 he worked as a painter's assistant and then as a master. His brother Adolf taught him since the 1890 addition in drawing and painting.

Since 1890, Albert Maennchen visited in parallel with the craft activity day and evening classes at the educational establishment of the Royal. Museum of Decorative Arts in Berlin. He studied the subjects of ornamentation, decorative painting, sculpture, art history and architecture with Professors Carl Zaar, Max Koch, Alexander Kips, Ludwig Manzel and Peter Jessen. 1897 and 1898 he was student of the history painter Josef Scheurenberg at the Academy of the Fine Arts in Berlin-Charlottenburg. Males did not Scheurenberg with the study and therefore broke off early.

Between summer 1899 and winter 1906/07 under four males took several months for private educational trips to the Académie Julian in Paris.

Albert conspecific males great career was finished 1918th The decorative and monumental painting was no longer in demand after World War II. He died on 12 January 1935 of complications from lung cancer.
Awards

French National Medal of Arts, Paris 1900
Italian National Medal of Arts, Turin 1902
U.S. State Medal of Arts, 1904
Honorary Degree Dusseldorf 1902

Works

1904 ceiling fresco in the palace at Potsdam Glienicke
1905 frescoes and murals courthouse, Rudolstadt
1910 painting of St. Paul's Church, Berlin
1910 painting of the Konzerthaus Clou
1914 Monumental painting (Baldur) in the community Festhalle Berlin Lankwitz
1915/18 ceiling paintings in the Plenary Hall of the Superior Court of Justice, Berlin
Painting the porch and the vestibule of the Main Post Office, Gdansk with figural and ornamental frescoes
Easel paintings: portraits, nudes, religious and mythological scenes, landscapes

Sources and Further Information
Main source of

Alfred Meurer: The Berlin painter Albert Maennchen. The decorative works from 1895 to 1918. VDG, Weimar 2006, ISBN 978-3-89739-532-9 

Art Books, Germany

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