Max Zimmermann, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German artist (1811-1878)
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Place of Birth: Zittau, Kreishauptmannschaft Bautzen, Germany
About Max Zimmermann
- August Maximilian Zimmermann, painter and lithographer, was born at Zittau, in Saxony on 7 July 1811.
- His father, the impresario Karl Friedrich August Zimmermann, brought him up as a musician, but in his leisure he practised lithography.
- At the age of twenty-three he abandoned music to devote himself entirely to lithography, and joining his brother Albert in Munich, studied drawing under his direction.
- He finally took to landscape painting, which he practised with some success.
- His subjects were chiefly forest scenes, studies of trees, and the like.
- The Neue Pinakothek at Munich has three of his pictures.
- He died at Munich in 1878.Zimmermann was from an artistic family; besides Albert, his brothers Robert and Richard also became painters.
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