Max Kaus was a German "second generation" expressionist painter and graphic artist.
19 Facts About Max Kaus
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Max Kaus was influential as a university level teacher and as deputy director at the Academy for visual arts in the city at that time known as West Berlin.
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Max Kaus was born and, eighty-six years later, died in Berlin.
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Max Kaus was powerfully influenced by the expressionism of the movement known as the Bridges Group.
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Max Kaus's study was combined with work as a freelance decorative artist.
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Max Kaus was one of a number of artists who served as medical orderlies, based in Ostend and undertaking their duties in western Flanders.
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Sources differ as to whether Heckel and Max Kaus already knew one another during the pre-war years, but it is clear that Heckel, with whom he remained in close contact after 1918, was an important influence, both in artistic and in human terms.
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Max Kaus had his first solo exhibition in 1919, at the Ferdinand Moller gallery.
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In 1926 Max Kaus accepted a professorship, teaching landscape art at the Kunstgewerbe- und Handwerkerschule in Berlin.
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Max Kaus drew inspiration from his travels within Germany and in the recently reconfigured state of Austria, as well as in northern Italy.
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Max Kaus was one of a large number of modernist artists, including his longstanding mentor Heckel, who had enjoyed commercial and critical success in the 1920s, and who now found their work officially dismissed and despised as "degenerate".
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Max Kaus nevertheless managed to save some of his early graphic prints which were smaller and more transportable where urgency was of the essence.
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Later that same year Max Kaus married his second wife, the art student Brigitte Kamm.
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In 1959 Max Kaus retired from his position at the academy.
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Many years later the widowed Sigrid Max Kaus told an interviewer that these were "beautiful, rich and exciting years".
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Sigrid Max Kaus was still living at the home they had shared twenty years after her husband's death.
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Max Kaus has ensured that his surviving works are properly catalogued and indexed.
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Max Kaus became a member of the German Artists' Association and remained a member until 1936 when the association was forcibly suppressed by then government.
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The physical event marking the suppression was the DKB's final exhibition which was held in Hamburg, and at which Max Kaus participated with his "Portrat Frau im Spiegel".