Max von Mauch

Max von Mauch (born February 6, 1864 in Vienna , † February 15, 1905 in Chicago , United States ) was an Austrian sculptor , landscape and portrait painter .

Life

From 1880 to 1890 Mauch studied at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts , where he was a student of Carl Kundmann . During these years z. B. a bust of Field Marshal Maximilian von Baumgarten, which is now kept in the Vienna Army History Museum . In 1891 Mauch emigrated to the United States , where he initially settled in New York City before moving to Chicago two years later. In the same year he worked under the sculptor Karl Bitter , who also came from Austria . With him Mauch designed the statues for the administration building of the world exhibition in Chicago .

Works (excerpt)

• Portrait bust of Lieutenant Field Marshal Maximilian von Baumgarten , 1889, plaster / wood, 60 × 36 × 82.5 cm, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum, Vienna

literature

• Ilse Krumpöck: The sculptures in the Army History Museum , Vienna 2004, p. 117 f.
• Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century . Leipzig 1930, volume 23, p. 272.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hans Vollmer (Ed.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century . Leipzig 1930, volume 23, p. 272.
2. ↑ Ilse Krumpöck: Die Bildwerke im Heeresgeschichtliches Museum , Vienna 2004, p. 117 f.