Max Lingner
Max Lingner (17 November 1888 – 14 March 1959) was a German painter, graphic artist, communist, and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime. Life. 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". On a study trip in 1913/1914 he visited England, the Netherlands, France and Belgium. In First World War he had to fight on all  fronts. In 1918, he took part in the Kiel mutiny and became a member of the soldiers' council in Kiel. He settled in the village of Born on the Darß from 1919 to 1922, but failed as a farmer. From 1922 to 1927, he worked as a painter and graphic artist in Weißenfels, but greater successes failed to materialise. On the advice of Käthe Kollwitz, he moved to Paris. The first years in the French capital also passed without any great impressions for him. The tide turned when Henri Barbusse won him a job at the weekly newspaper "Monde". Here  Lingner's great talent as a press artist became apparent, so that he was soon entrusted with the entire artistic design of the newspaper. The Monde appeared from 1928 until Barbusse's death in 1935. From 1931 onwards, Lingner's style shaped the appearance of the newspaper. He created drawings for title pages, but also drawings and illustrations for the published texts and literary supplements. French-language press titles in which Max Lingner has collaborated. With these works, he found his way into Parisian artistic life. In 1934, he joined the Association of Revolutionary Writers and Artists of France (AEAR ). He participated in exhibitions of this group. In 1933, Lingner showed his first works at the Galerie Billet (Pierre Vorms), and further exhibitions took place in Paris in 1939 and 1947. The paintings and drawings shown there were created alongside his daily work as a press illustrator. He also brought back hundreds of ink drawings from his forays through Parisian working-class suburbs - the "banlieue" - and motifs and people from these wanderings were often found in his paintings and press drawings. He liked to paint and draw motifs of French women.