Max Lohde (February 13, 1845 – December 18, 1868) was a German painter, known for his sgraffito work.
Born in Berlin to Ludwig Lohde, an architect, Lohde studied below Julius Schnorr in Dresden and Peter von Cornelius in Berlin, then at the Prussian Academy of Arts, where he won a prize in 1866. While a student, he took a vacation to Silesia that aroused his engagement in some recently discovered remnants of outdated sgraffito art, and developed faculty in the technique, as without difficulty as discovering a further process for producing it. In 1867 he executed four large sgraffito compositions from the Epic Cycle in the stairway of the Sophiengymnasium in Berlin. He as a consequence produced a sgraffito appear in for the pediment of the German War Ministry’s riding school, as without difficulty as additional decorative painting.
In 1868 he went upon a vacation to Italy to study dated sgraffito work, but died in Naples back returning. His correspondence like Cornelius and travel reports on the vacation were published in some 1868 and 1869 issues of the magazine Zeitschrift für bildende Kunst.
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