24 August 2017

Max/ Maximilian Kurzweil. Lady in Yellow (‘Dame in Gelb’), 1899 (Wien Museum, Vienna).


Oil on canvas: 170 x 170 cm. The artist’s wife. Kurzweil was co-founder of the Vienna Secession, but seceded with Klimt and others in 1905. He became a teacher at the Artschool for Women in 1909. Was appointed war painter in 1915, and committed suicide with his pupil Helene Heger in 1916. His work was only rediscovered in 1964 after a retrospective 'Wien um 1900' at the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere.

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