Schillerplatz 3, 1010 Wien, Austria
Vienna Academy of Fine Arts
31 Rue du Dragon, 75006 Paris, France
Julian Academy
Schillerplatz 3, 1010 Wien, Austria
Vienna Academy of Fine Arts
31 Rue du Dragon, 75006 Paris, France
Julian Academy
Karlsplatz 5, 1010 Wien, Austria
Vienna Künstlerhaus
Christian Griepenkerl
Kazimierz Pochwalski
illustrator painter printmaker
Max Kurzweil was born on October 12, 1867, in Bzenec, Czech Republic. He was a son of Karl Kurzweil, a factory owner, and Maria Marterer.
Max had two sisters whose name were Marie and Bertha, and a brother named Karl.
Max Kurzweil became a student of the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna at the age of nineteen. Kurzweil had spent at the institution nine years during which he received art lessons from Christian Griepenkerl, Leopold Carl Müller and Kazimierz Pochwalski.
In 1892, Max enrolled at the Julian Academy in Paris, France.
Max Kurzweil had his artistic debut at the Paris Salon of 1894. The next year followed an exposition at the Vienna Künstlerhaus.
In two years, Kurzweil was among the founders of Vienna Secession art movement which based at the Vienna Künstlerhaus.
The teaching activity of the painter began in 1909 when he became a professor of painting and drawing at the Frauenkunstschule, the School of Fine Arts for Women. At the outbreak of the First World War, the painter produced some canvases on the war.
Max Kurzweil also tried his hand as an editor and illustrator of the Secessionist periodical Ver Sacrum (Sacred Spring).
Max Kurzweil was a prolific and talented painter. He contributed to the development of the Austrian art. So, the painter was among the artists who developed modernism in the country. He also co-founded the well-known art movement called Vienna Secession and became one of its prominent representatives along with Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele.
The artworks of Max Kurzweil are preserved in permanent collections of such Austrian museums as Vienna Museum, the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, and American Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco and the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. A painting titled Landscape with Saltlick is now at the private collection in Colorado, United States.
Seated nude facing right and meditating
The Farrier
Self-portrait
Martha Kurzweil before an Easel
Bettina Bauer
Tale of the Doomed Prince
Despair
Mira Bauer
Goodbye
Tip of the Bay
Lady in Yellow Dress
Love
The Fisherman
A Walk in the Garden
By the Stream
Port of Concarneau
Therese Bloch-Bauer
Martha Kurzweil
Field in Brittany
Shore Landscape with Houses
Boats
Ships along the Adriatic Coast
Sailboat Docked in Concarneau
On the coast of Concarneau
Kai
Pinetree (Rab), Croatia (study)
At the end of his life, Max Kurzweil had a lot of melancholic depressions.
Max Kurzweil married Marie-Josephine Marthe Guyot in 1895. She was a daughter of Concarneau commune in Brittany, France.
Later, after the couple broke out, the painter had romantic relationships with one of his students Helene Heger. The love story was unhappy.
