- oil on canvas (the work is framed)
- 64.5 x 85 cm
- Signed l.d.: M KUSCHEL
- oil on canvas (the work is framed)
- 64.5 x 85 cm
- Signed l.d.: M KUSCHEL
Painter, Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and member of the Munich Secession.
Maximilian Robert Otto Kuschel (1862-1935) graduated in painting from the Royal School of Fine Arts in Breslau in 1882. He then studied at the Academy in Berlin from 1882 to 1885. In the second half of the 1880s he moved permanently to Munich, where he studied under Alexander von Liezen-Mayer at the Academy of Fine Arts. Beginning in 1888, he was a member of the Munich Sec ession (Münchner Secession), an association of visual artists who had split from the Munich Artists' Association, which was controlled by conservative artists who adhered to historicism. The Munich Secession gave its members freedom of artistic expression. It operated on a cooperative basis also providing material support to members who found themselves in need
