Max Breu

1915-1941

Very little is known about this German artist. Breu must have been academically trained in the conservative tradition because his work shows no trace of Modernism even though he lived during the twentieth century.

It appears that Breu was most heavily influenced by Paulus Potter (1625-54), a Dutch painter who pioneered the depiction of animals as the sole subject of a painting.

Like Potter before him, Breu shows a strong sympathy for the lives of animals in his surviving paintings, all of which are barnyard scenes.