Maximilian Franz Viktor Zdenko Marie Kurzweil (12 (13?) October 1867 Bisenz - 9 May 1916 Vienna

Vienna

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) was an Austrian painter and printmaker. He moved near Vienna in 1879.

Maximillian or Max Kurzweil studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna is an institution of higher education in Vienna, Austria.- History :The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna was founded in 1692 as a private academy by the court-painter Peter Strudl, who became the Praefectus Academiae Nostrae. In 1701 he was ennobled as Baron of the Empire...

 with Christian Griepenkerl

Christian Griepenkerl

Christian Griepenkerl was a German painter and professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.Griepenkerl was born to one of Oldenburg's leading families...

 and Leopold Carl Müller

Leopold Müller (painter)

Leopold Carl Müller was an Austrian genre painter.-Biography:...

, and attended the Académie Julian

Académie Julian

The Académie Julian was an art school in Paris, France.Rodolphe Julian established the Académie Julian in 1868 at the Passage des Panoramas, as a private studio school for art students. The Académie Julian not only prepared students to the exams at the prestigious École des Beaux-Arts, but offered...

 in Paris

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 from 1892, where he exhibited his first paining at the Salon in 1894. He was co-founder of the Vienna Secession

Vienna Secession

The Vienna Secession was formed in 1897 by a group of Austrian artists who had resigned from the Association of Austrian Artists, housed in the Vienna Künstlerhaus. This movement included painters, sculptors, and architects...

 in 1897 and editor and illustrator of the influential Secessionist magazine Ver Sacrum (Sacred Spring).
Kurzweil was also professor at the Frauenkunstschule. and in 1905, he was awarded the Villa Romana prize

Villa Romana prize

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. His later works show influence from Edvard Munch

Edvard Munch

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 and Ferdinand Hodler

Ferdinand Hodler

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. He committed suicide in 1916 after having shot a female student who was his lover. Despite his relatively short career, Kurzweil belongs to the most significant representatives of the Viennese Secessionist movement after Gustav Klimt

Gustav Klimt

Gustav Klimt was an Austrian Symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. His major works include paintings, murals, sketches, and other art objects...

 and Egon Schiele

Egon Schiele

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.

Works

• "A welcome visitor" (Vienna, private), 1894, oil on cardboard, 24.5 x 30.5 cm
• "Lady in Yellow" (Vienna Museum
  Vienna Museum
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  , Inv. No. 117 376), 1899, oil on canvas
• "The letter II" (San Francisco Fine Arts Museum), 1900, lithograph, 19.5 x 22 cm
• "The cushion" (Art Gallery of New South Wales), 1903, color woodcut, 28.6 x 26 cm
• "Secession XVII. Exhibition" (poster), 1903, color lithograph, 189 x 63.5 cm
• "Portrait of a Lady" (Emilie Floege;? Linz, Castle Museum, gift Kastner), c. 1905, oil on canvas, 100 x 70 cm
• "Mira Bauer" (Vienna, Austrian Gallery), 1908, oil on canvas, 66 x 52.5 cm
• "Bettina Bauer" (Vienna, Austrian Gallery), 1908, oil on canvas, 66 x 52 cm
• "Landscape with Saltlick" (Colorado USA, private), c. 1910, watercolor on paper, 30 x 42.5 cm

Literature

• Adolph Paburg: (imilian) "Kurzweil Max". In: Austrian Biographical Dictionary 1815-1950 (ÖBL). Volume 4, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1969, p. 369 f. (Direct Links, "p. 369, p. 370)
• "Max Kurzweil 1867 to 1916". Exhibition catalog. Vienna: Austrian Gallery, 1965
• Fritz Novotny / Hubert Adolph: Max Kurzweil. A painter of the Vienna Secession. Vienna: Jugend & Volk, 1969

External links

• "Max Kurzweil", Artnet
• "Maximilian Kurzweil", Artcyclopedia
• Max Kurzweil, (1867-1916) ", Christie's
• "Max Kurzweil", Artnet