Max Meldrum b. 1875

  • Artist
After winning a National Gallery School Travelling Scholarship and moving to Paris to study, Scottish-born painter Max Meldrum found himself out of sympathy with the academic theories being taught and soon abandoned formal study. He nevertheless made a name for himself with his controversial theory of painting as a pure science, a science of optical analysis.
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Name
Max Meldrum
Gender
Male
Roles
  • Artist
Other Occupation
  • Lecturer
  • Art teacher
Birth date
1875
Death date
6 June 1955
Death place
Kew, Melbourne, Vic.
Active Period
  • c.1892 - c.1940
Arrival
  • 1889
Residence
  • 1875 - 1889 Edinburgh, Scotland
  • 1889 - 1900 Melbourne, Vic.
  • 1900 - 1901 Paris, France
  • 1901 - 1902 Scotland
  • 1902 - 1911 France
  • 1928- United States of America (Six months )
  • 1926 - 1931 France
  • 1911 - 1926 Melbourne, Vic.
  • 1931 - 1955 Melbourne, Vic.
Training
  • 1900 - 1901 Académie Colarossi, Paris, France
  • 1900 - 1901 Académie Julian, Paris, France
  • 1892 - 1899 National Gallery School, Melbourne, Vic.
Cultural Heritage
  • Scottish
Languages
  • English

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