Max Kurzweil

He was co-founder of the Vienna Secession in 1897, and editor and illustrator of the influential Secessionist magazine Ver Sacrum (Sacred Spring). Kurzweil was also professor at the Frauenkunstschule, an academy for female artists in Vienna. In 1905, he was awarded the Villa Romana prize. His later works show influence from Edvard Munch and Ferdinand Hodler. Despite his relatively short career, Kurzweil belongs to the most significant representatives of the Viennese Secessionist movement (along with Gustav Klimt).

Max Kurzweil studied at Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and Académie Julian. Work by Max Kurzweil is recorded in the collections of Belvedere, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Art Institute of Chicago, National Gallery of Victoria and Museum of Modern Art. Distinctions recorded are Villa Romana Prize.

• Illustration — Woman in a Yellow Dress. Oil on canvas, 1899 • "A dear visitor" (Vienna, private), 1894, oil on cardboard, 24.5 x 30.5 cm • "Woman in a Yellow Dress" (Vienna Museum, 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