Max Lingner

Max Lingner (17 November 1888 – 14 March 1959) was a German painter, graphic artist, communist, and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime.

Born in Leipzig, the son of a xylographer, Lingner graduated from high school in 1907 and studied as a master student under Carl Bantzer at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, where he completed his training in 1912 with a painting Singing Girls, for which he received the "Saxon State Prize".

From 1922 to 1927, he worked as a painter and graphic artist in Weißenfels, but greater successes failed to materialise.

In 1933, Lingner showed his first works at the Galerie Billet (Pierre Vorms[13]), and further exhibitions took place in Paris in 1939 and 1947.

An opportunity arises to discover another no less human aspect of Lingner's work, for he is the painter of serious Parisian landscapes (...) and compositions to the glory of a youth whose attitudes speak of joie de vivre and health.

Lingner was accused here not only of the lightness of the figures, which was typical of his "French" style, but also that he had not depicted a tractor in the painting accurately according to the actual model.

His grave is located in the municipal Pankow Cemetery III [de] on Leonhard-Frank-Strasse in Niederschönhausen.

The administration of the estate was then continued by the art historian Dr. Gertrud Heider, who also headed the Max Lingner Circle of Friends.

Since March 1999, Lingner's written estate as well as photographs of his work, press graphics and a small part of his artistic oeuvre have been in the archive of the Academy of Art, Berlin.