Gabriel von Max – Austrian artist
Gabriel Cornelius Ritter von Max (August 23, 1840 – November 24, 1915) – Austrian artist
The greatest painter Gabriel von Max is usually listed among German artists. He is little known in wide circles of art lovers.
Indeed, he spent most of his life in Munich, although he was born in Prague, and was the son of the famous Prague sculptor Josef Max, the author of three sculptures on the Charles Bridge.
His uncle Emmanuel Max made three more sculptures for the Charles Bridge. It is very likely that the future artist helped his father and uncle in working on these sculptures.
Gabriel von Max was keenly interested in Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution, so he collected human skulls and was very fond of monkeys.
In the artist’s country residence on Lake Starnberg near Munich, there lived a whole family of monkeys, who regularly posed for his paintings.
The artist left behind a grand collection of five hundred human skulls from all continents and touching portraits of his pets.
Anthropology Lesson. 1900–1910.
