Artist

Gabriel von Max

Portrait of Gabriel von Max
Portrait of Gabriel von Max

Austrian Empire, 1840–1915

Gabriel von Max was an Austrian Empire Realism painter. 5 works are cataloged here, principally at Kunsthistorisches Museum, most of them oil paintings. Gabriel von Max was born in Prague.

Gabriel Cornelius Ritter von Max (23 August 1840 in Prague, Kingdom of Austria – 24 November 1915 in Munich) was a Prague-born Austrian-German painter, and professor of history painting at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts. He was also a collector of anthropological artifacts. His collection included between 60.000 and 80.000 objects from Zoology, Anthropology, Ethology, and Prehistory. The collection is displayed in the Reiss Engelhorn Museum in Mannheim.

Works by Gabriel von Max

Collections represented

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