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 Gabriel Cornelius Ritter von MAX Czechoslovakian School, 1840 - 1915
A Quite Respite
Oil on canvas,
35 by 29 ½ inches framed
Born in Prague in 1840, Gabriel Cornelius Ritter von Max entered Prague’s Academy of Fine Arts at the age of fifteen. In the early 1860s, Max studied under the tutelage of Karl Theodore von Piloty at the Akademie der Bildenden Kunste in Munich. He eventually settled in Munich and opened a private painting school in 1869. He illustrated works of German literature by Wieland, Lenau and Schiller as well as Goethe’s Faust. His paintings and book illustrations of the late 1860s share an affinity for the late Romanticist movement.
During the 1870s, Max’s studio was a major influence on artists in Austria and Germany. And, from 1879 to 1883, Max had a lasting influence on Bohemian and Hungarian artists during his tenure as professor of historical painting at the Akademie in Munich. Max died in Munich in 1915. His works are now housed in over 35 major collections throughout the world including Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Liechtenstein Museum in Vienna, the Rumianstev Museum in Moscow and the Art Institute of Chicago.
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