Max Kurzweil (1867–1916)

Co-founder of the Vienna Secession who edited Ver Sacrum and captured intimate domestic moments in Art Nouveau style.

ABOUT

Maximilian Franz Viktor Zdenko Marie Kurzweil (12 October 1867, Bisenz – 9 May 1916, Vienna) was an Austrian painter and printmaker. He moved near Vienna in 1879. Maximillian or Max Kurzweil studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Christian Griepenkerl and Leopold Carl Müller, and attended the Académie Julian in Paris from 1892, where he exhibited his first painting at the Salon in 1894. He was co-founder of the Vienna Secession in 1897, and editor and illustrator of…

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NOTABLE WORKS

Cushion (Martha Kurzweil Seated on a Divan) 1875 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art Woman in a yellow dress 1899 · Vienna Museum The Port of Concarneau 1900 · Belvedere The Cushion (Martha Kurzweil Seated on a Divan) 1903 · Cleveland Museum of Art Mira Bauer 1907 · Belvedere

INFLUENCES

Influenced by

Christian GriepenkerlAcademic painting Leopold Carl MüllerAustrian Orientalism Edvard MunchExpressionism Ferdinand HodlerSymbolism

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