Max Friedrich Koch

Koch came from a family of artists where he received his first learning in painting. His father, , and older brother Georg, were both painters. The three of them often worked together on large commissions and occasionally collaborated with the maritime artist Hans Bohrdt. His younger brother, Friedrich, was a composer and music teacher. Koch attended the , where he was a student of professor and formative of professor . Die Schönheit (The Beauty) was a monthly journal for art and life, published between 1903 and 1914 in Berlin, Leipzig, and Vienna, and again in Dresden from 1915 until 1932. The journal was elaborately designed in German Jugendstil (Art Nouveau), produced on art paper, and was one the first to include "culturally nude" life photographs by various past and present photographers. The Reich Court of Justice in Leipzig subsequently acquitted the journalist and publisher Karl Vanselow in two test cases in 1906 and 1909, ruling that "the representation of naked people for the purpose of publicity for Freikörperkultur (free body culture) is declared as not punishable". == Publications ==

Photography Photography works and model studies in open air nature and studio, according to artistic and academia criteria • "Freilicht" (Book I), by Professor Max Koch, published by Internationaler Kunstverlag M. Bauer & Co., Leipzig, ca. 1890s • "Der Akt" (Book II) and in French publication ''"L'Act (La Modèle humaine)", by Professor Max Koch & Architect and Sculptor Otto Rieth, published by Internationaler Kunstverlag M. Bauer & Co.'', Leipzig, 1894 == Selected works ==

File:Max Koch Schlacht bei Hemmingstedt.jpg|Schlacht bei Hemmingstedt (Battle of Hemmingstedt), mural in the assembly hall of the County Hall (Kreishaus) of the former Süderdithmarschen District in Meldorf, 1910 File:Aufgang Lübecker Rathaus.JPG|Mural in Lübeck Town Hall staircase with scenes from the founding of the city File:Ratssaal2.jpg|Mural in Lübeck Town Hall File:Koch-Potsdam.jpg|Ansicht von Potsdam - Die Alte Fahrt mit Blick auf die Nikolaikirche (View of Potsdam - The "Alte Fahrt" waterway with a view of St. Nicholas Church), Potsdam, 1918 File:A painting by Max Friedrich Koch - Donar-Thor.jpg|Donar (Thor), ca. 1905 File:Max Friedrich Koch Potsdam Heiligengeistkirche.jpg|Heilig Geist Kirche (Holy Spirit Church), Potsdam File:Koch-Kellertor.jpg|Kellertor (Cellar Gate Guard, Potsdam city gates), Potsdam, ca. 1912 File:Koch-Riverside.jpg|Hinterhöfe an der Alten Fahrt bei Vollmond (Backyards on the "Alte Fahrt" waterway by full moon), Potsdam, 1917 File:Koch-Zillen.jpg|Zillen on the Havel watercourse, Potsdam File:Koch-Havel.jpg|Zillen on the Havel watercourse, Potsdam File:Koch Max Sylter Gehöft@Sylter Heimatmuseum20171229.jpg|Ostfriesischer Hof (East Frisia farmhouse), ca. 1900 ==References==