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Maximilian Kurzweil, lived from 1867 to 1916. The Austrian painter and representative of Viennese Art Nouveau, who later turned more and more to symbolism, studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna under Christian Griepenkerl, Leopold Carl Müller and Casimir Pochwalski. From 1891 he spent much of his time in France, where he met his wife Marie-Josephine Marthe Guyot and married. In 1895 he was finally admitted to the Vienna Künstlerhaus, one year later he was awarded the "Little Golden State Medal", and in 1897 he was one of the founding members of the Vienna Secession. There he was one of the most diligent employees and was heavily involved in the legendary magazine "Ver Sacrum". In 1903 Max Kurzweil withdrew his membership, and two years later he was named one of the first winners of the prestigious "Villa Romana Prize". From 1909 he taught at the art school for women and girls - a fateful activity: in 1916 he committed suicide, after he had previously shot his student and lover. Max Kurzweil was buried in the family crypt at the Hütteldorfer Cemetery.