(Bisenz in Moravia, 1867 – Vienna, 1916)
Landscape, genre and portrait painter, as well as woodcut artist. Born on 13 October 1867 in Bisenz in Moravia, died on 19 May 1916 in Vienna by suicide. From 1886 to 1892, he was a student at the Vienna Academy under Christian Griepenkerl and Leopold Karl Müller. In 1892, he went to Paris, where he attended the Académie Julian until 1894 and made his debut at the Salon of the Société des Artfranc. with the painting ‘Im Herbst’ (In Autumn). He also worked temporarily in Concarneau in Brittany, returned to Vienna in September 1894 and attended the Vienna Academy under Kasimir Pochwalski to further his training in portraiture. In 1896, he joined the Vienna Künstlerhaus, where he exhibited the painting ‘Young Breton Couple’. The following year, he joined the newly founded Vienna Secession, to which he belonged until 1905 and at whose exhibitions he was frequently represented with figure paintings, portraits and landscapes as well as colour woodcuts. He was also a contributor to the magazine ‘Ver Sacrum’. From January 1911 to the end of 1915, he worked as Rudolf Jettmar's successor at the Vienna Women's Academy and was then called up as a war painter. The Hörmann Foundation in Vienna owns his painting ‘View of the Port of Concarneau’, and the Vienna Women's Academy has a self-portrait in its collection.
Lit.: Fuchs, Heinrich: Austrian Painters; Novotny, Fritz/Hubert Adolph: Max Kurzweil. A Painter of the Vienna Secession. Vienna, 1969