Max Kurzweil

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Max Kurzweil
Lady in Yellow (Vienna Museum), 1899
Max Kurzweil, Mira Bauer (Vienna, Austrian Gallery), 1908

Maximilian Kurzweil (born October 12, 1867 in Bisenz , Moravia, † May 9, 1916 in Vienna ) was an Austrian painter and graphic artist of Art Nouveau .

Life

Maximilian Viktor Zdenko Franz Marie Kurzweil was the son of the factory owner Karl Kurzweil and his wife Maria Marterer and was born on October 12 or 13, 1867 in Bisenz. In 1879 he moved with the family to Vienna and attended the Schottengymnasium there . From 1886 to 1895 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Christian Griepenkerl (1886–1888), Leopold Carl Müller (1890–1891) and Casimir Pochwalski (1894–1895).

From 1891 he spent a large part of his time in France , where in 1895 he married his wife Marie-Josephine Marthe Guyot, the daughter of the Vice Mayor of Concarneau in Brittany .

In 1895 he was admitted to the Vienna Künstlerhaus , received the small gold state medal in 1896 and was a founding member of the Vienna Secession in 1897 . There he was one of the most zealous collaborators, also with the magazine Ver Sacrum , but withdrew his membership in 1903. In 1905 he was one of the first Villa Romana Prize winners.

From 1909 Kurzweil taught drawing and painting at the art school for women and girls. During the First World War he was partly employed as a war painter in Moravia . In 1916 he went "as a consequence of personal circumstances and an inherent melancholy together with his student Helene Heger in his death". Kurzweil painted a portrait of Heger around 1915.

He was buried in the family crypt in the Hütteldorfer Friedhof .

Works

Kurzweil was a representative of the Viennese Art Nouveau, but later, under the influence of Edvard Munch and Ferdinand Hodler, turned more and more to symbolism.

  • A dear visit (Vienna private), 1894, oil on cardboard, 24.5 × 30.5 cm
  • Lady in Yellow ( Wien Museum , inv.no.117.376), 1899, oil on canvas
  • The Letter II ( San Francisco , Fine Arts Museum ), around 1900, lithograph, 19.5 × 22 cm
  • The upholstery ( Sydney , Art Gallery of New South Wales ), 1903, woodcut in color, 28.6 × 26 cm
  • Secession XVII. Exhibition (poster), 1903, color lithograph, 189 × 63.5 cm
  • Lady in Violet (portrait of his wife Martha); Linz , Upper Austrian State Museum , Kastner donation, around 1905, oil on canvas, 100 × 70 cm
  • Mira Bauer (Vienna, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere ), 1908, oil on canvas, 66 × 52.5 cm
  • Bettina Bauer (Vienna, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere), 1908, oil on canvas, 66 × 52 cm
  • Landscape with Salt Stone ( Colorado , USA , private), ca.1910, watercolors, 30 × 42.5 cm

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Ries:  Kurzweil, Max. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , p. 339 ( digitized version ).
  2. ↑ Max Kurzweil: Helene Heger in an armchair, oil on canvas, 60 × 55 cm, around 1915, private property

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personal data
SURNAME Kurzweil, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kurzweil, Maximilian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Bzenec
DATE OF DEATH May 9, 1916
Place of death Vienna