Here you find a selection of Max Peiffer Watenphul's autobiographical texts as well as other texts by contemporaries and art historians who introduce us to the artist's life and work.

Texts by Max Peiffer Watenphul

From the handwritten account of “Journey in Austria”, 1920
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To Prof. Johannes Itten, Zurich, 1947
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German Degenerate Art and Biennale, 1948
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Reminiscences of Paul Klee, 1949
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Thoughts on Venice, 1952
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A New Venice, 1952
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Discoveries, 1965
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Foreword to the Exhibition Catalogue “Max Peiffer Watenphul zum 70. Geburtstag” (Max Peiffer Watenphul on His Seventieth Birthday) in Salzburg, 1966
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Texts about Max Peiffer Watenphul

Grace Watenphul Pasqualucci
Memories of My Brother Max Peiffer Watenphul
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Heinrich Goertz
My Teacher Max Peiffer Watenphul
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Alfred Salmony
in “Das Kunstblatt” (in German), 1921
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Gustav René Hocke
in “Speculum Artis” (in German), 1965
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Bernhard Degenhart
Preface to the First Volume of the Catalogue Raisonné
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Ulrich Krempel
A Matter of the Heart: Max Peiffer Watenphul and Italy
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Mario-Andreas von Lüttichau
Italy is what Matters: Max Peiffer Watenphul, from the Bauhaus to the Villa Massimo
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Stephan von Wiese
The Lagoon in Sfumato
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Michael Semff
Max Peiffer Watenphul: Drawings of the South
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Peter Hahn
“For now I’ll just Take Things in”: On Max Peiffer Watenphul’s Photographs
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