Max Schödl (2 February 1834 – 23 March 1921) was an Austrian still life painter.

Schödl studied painting at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts under Friedrich Friedlander von Mannheim. Throughout his long life and career, the artist worked in different cities and countries – in Vienna, Paris, London, Italy – and achieved the highest professional skill, success and recognition.

The artist began working as a portrait painter, but from 1868 he began to paint exclusively exotic still lifes, as a more popular genre. His paintings were awarded silver medals at exhibitions in Vienna in 1873 and in Sydney in 1879.

From 1869 he was a member of the “House of Artists” (Künstlerhauses), to which he bequeathed a significant sum of money. “Lord Schödl” (as he was nicknamed) was known as an original man in Vienna, whose sayings often seemed funny, but in them one could guess hidden wisdom. Mirko Jelusich collected many of these anecdotes. In his work, Schödl gave preference to decorative objects, often painted antiques and other luxury objects. The theme of the East occupied a special place. The artist with filigree skill and care was able to depict a fine pattern on Chinese porcelain, an elegant finish of a hookah or the handle of an Iranian sabre, an intricate pattern of a luxurious carpet.