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MAXIMILIAN KURZWEIL (Bzenec 1867 - 1916 Vienna) In the theatre oil/cardboard 21 x 30,7 cm signed Kurzweil SCHÄTZPREIS / ESTIMATE € 1600 - 3000 STARTPREIS / STARTING PRICE € 1600 Maximilian Kurzweil was an Austrian artist. He was born in Moravia, the son of a factory owner. In 1879, the family moved to Vienna, where Maximilian Kurzweil attended Gymnasium and then studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna from 1886 to 1895. His teachers were Christian Griepenkerl, Leopold Carl Müller and Casimir Pochwalski. In 1891, Kurzweil decided to stay in France, where he met and married his wife. In 1895, he became a member of the Vienna Künstlerhaus, in 1896 he received the small gold state medal and in 1897 he was a founding member of the Vienna Secession, of which he remained a member until 1903. From 1909, Kurzweil taught drawing and painting at the Kunstschule für Frauen und Mädchen (art school for women and girls). During the First World War he was temporarily employed as a war painter. In 1916, the artist committed suicide with one of his students. Kurzweil was an important representative of Viennese Art Nouveau, which later increasingly turned to symbolism under the influence of Edvard Munch and Ferdinand Hodler. PLEASE NOTE: The purchase price consists of the highest bid plus the buyer's premium, sales tax and, if applicable, the fee of artists resale rights. In the case of normal taxation (marked ° at the estimate), a premium of 24% is added to the highest bid. The mandatory sales tax is added to the sum of the highest bid and the buyer's premium. This amounts to 13% for paintings, drawings, graphic works and sculptures and 20% for photographs and all other items. The buyer's premium amounts to 28% in case of differential taxation. The sales tax is included in the differential taxation.