Max Peiffer Watenphul
Max Peiffer Watenphul is a German artist, born in 1896.
After initially studying medicine in Bonn, Peiffer Watenphul switched to law in Strasbourg, Frankfurt and Munich. In Munich, he encountered contemporary art and met Paul Klee. In 1918, he completed his doctorate in Kirchnerrecht in Würzburg, deciding just one year later to give up his legal career and devote himself entirely to art. From 1919 to 1922 he was a student at the Bauhaus in Weimar, where he cultivated friendships with Oskar Schlemmer, Josef Albers, Wassily Kandinsky and Kurt Schwitters. His first exhibitions began in 1920 and from 1924 he undertook numerous long-distance trips to Mexico and Dalmatia, and spent time in the south of France, Paris, Florence and Rome. In the 1940s, he undertook numerous teaching assignments in Germany. In 1946, his studio in Krefeld was destroyed in an air raid and he fled to Venice, where he lived with his sister until 1958. He then moved to Rome, followed by several trips to Greece. In 1970, the artist produced his last painting, followed only by drawings, watercolors and lithographs.
Max Peiffer Watenphul dies in Rome in 1976.
