Gustav Alexander Max Uth
Birth dateNovember 24, 1863
Birth placeBerlin
Death dateJune 15, 1914 (aged 50)
Death placeHermannswerder
Alma materAcademy of Art, Berlin
Known forLandscape painting
MovementBerlin Secession
ElectedFounding member of the Berlin Secession

Gustav Alexander Max Uth (24 November 1863 – 15 June 1914[1]) was a German painter of landscapes and art teacher.

Uth was born in Berlin as the son of a manufacturer. He enrolled at the Academy of Art in Berlin under Eugen Bracht. He opened his own atelier for women painters in 1897[2] in Berlin; among his students were Gertrud Berger[3] (1870–1949), Laura Schaberg (1860 or 1866–1935), Sophie Wencke-Meinken (1874–1963) and Emmy Gotzmann (1881–1950).[4]

Paintings by Uth were among those exhibited in the AEG electricity pavilion at the Paris Exposition Universelle in 1900[5] and in the German Pavilion at the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904.[6] He was one of the founding members of the Berlin Secession in 1899, and one of the sixteen artists to leave it in 1902.[7][8] He died in 1914 in Hermannswerder, Potsdam.[1]

Notable works

  • Am Bach. Sommerliche Stimmung, am Ufer eines Baches steht ein Angler. (n.d.; oil on canvas; 70 x 70 cm)
  • Landsitz in der Mark. (ca. 1900; oil on canvas; 88 x 99 cm)[9]
  • Der Biergarten. (ca. 1910; oil on canvas; 75,5 x 85 cm)[10]
  • Dünenlandschaft. (oil on canvas; 40 x 54 cm)[11]

References

  1. ^ kettererkunst.de
  2. ^ Modersohn-Becker, Paula; Busch, Günter; von Reinken, Liselotte et al. (1998). Paula Modersohn-Becker, the Letters and Journals. Northwestern UP. p. 450. ISBN 9780810116443.
  3. ^ "Berger, Gertrud (1876 Bergen / Rügen - 1950 Greifswald)". Tissimo. 2009. Retrieved 25 January 2020.
  4. ^ ""Emmy Auguste Elisabeth Gotzmann-Conrad: An der Flensburger Förde"". museen-nord.de. Retrieved 2020-12-31.
  5. ^ "Electrical Exhibits at the Paris Exhibition: The Exhibit of the Allgemeine Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft, Berlin". Engineering. 23 November 1900.
  6. ^ Germany, Reichskommission, Weltausstellung in St. Louis (1904). International Exposition St. Louis 1904: Official Catalogue: Exhibition of the German Empire. Berlin: Stilke. p. 394. OCLC 1061947
  7. ^ "Beiblatt" (in German). Deutsche Zeitschrift. Vol. 4, no. 1. 1902. p. 382.
  8. ^ Elias, Julius (1902). "Sezession und Sezessiönchen" (in German). Die Zukunft. Vol. 38. pp. 409–14.
  9. ^ File:Max Uth Landsitz in der Mark.jpg
  10. ^ schaufenster.diepresse.com[dead link]
  11. ^ kettererkunst.de