Max Rieder

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Max RIEDER was born in Salzburg in 1909. After an appren­tice­ship in wood carv­ing, stud­ied at the Acad­e­my of Fine Arts in Vien­na with Pro­fes­sor Anton Hanak. 1934/35 Par­tic­i­pa­tion in the design of the new gov­ern­ment dis­trict in Ankara. The artist lived in Munich from 1936 to 1945, after which he returned to Salzburg. Attend­ed the sum­mer acad­e­my as a stu­dent of Hein­rich Kirch­n­er. Rieder’s con­cep­tion of the fig­ure is pure­ly clas­si­cal. Abstrac­tion is alien to him; the human fig­ure, albeit reduced, is the start­ing point for his work. Numer­ous works by the artist are in pub­lic spaces, in church­es, on squares and bridges. Max Rieder dies in Salzburg in 2000. 2001 – first exhi­bi­tion in the gallery Welz.

Max RIEDER was born in Salzburg in 1909. After an appren­tice­ship in wood carv­ing, stud­ied at the Acad­e­my of Fine Arts in Vien­na with Pro­fes­sor Anton Hanak. 1934/35 Par­tic­i­pa­tion in the design of the new gov­ern­ment dis­trict in Ankara. The artist lived in Munich from 1936 to 1945, after which he returned to Salzburg. Attend­ed the sum­mer acad­e­my as a stu­dent of Hein­rich Kirch­n­er. Rieder’s con­cep­tion of the fig­ure is pure­ly clas­si­cal. Abstrac­tion is alien to him; the human fig­ure, albeit reduced, is the start­ing point for his work. Numer­ous works by the artist are in pub­lic spaces, in church­es, on squares and bridges. Max Rieder dies in Salzburg in 2000. 2001 – first exhi­bi­tion in the gallery Welz.

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