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1893, is now a listed building. Max and his wife retreated here more and more often to lead a secluded life. After his elevation to the
Bavarian personal nobility effective December 2, 1900, he was only rarely in Munich, where he still maintained his collection in the studio building on Paul-Heyse-Strasse. He also became a Fellow of
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Max (Ambach) in Ambach in 1893 after divorcing Emma Max and marrying
Ernestine Harlander. He had the house remodeled into an artist's villa. He spent the summer months there until about 1900, after which he lived there most of the time until his death in 1915. Both buildings are listed as historic monuments.
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In 1893, shortly after his divorce from his first wife, Max married his long-time lover
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quickly. Later he used the material for large paintings in which he sometimes depicted the animals as people. Max, along with his colleagues, often used photographs to guide painting. The great number of monkey photographs in his archive testify to their use as direct translation into his paintings.
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In Münsing on Lake
Starnberg there are two artist villas of Gabriel von Max. He bought Villa Max (Ammerland) in 1875 in the district of Ammerland and lived there with his family in the summer months until 1893 (although he had a mistress in Ambach since the mid-1880s). He acquired the second Villa
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In 1878 Max was appointed professor of history painting at the Munich
Academy, but he gave this post back in 1883 because it took up too much of his time. He preferred to devote himself to his scientific research. In 1884 he joined the Lodge Germania of the Theosophical Society. He belonged to the
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On May 24, 1873, Max married Emma
Kitzing (1840-1929), a Munich native whom he had met in 1864, in Traunstein. She bore him a daughter, Ludmilla (1874-1961), and two sons; the later painters Cornelius Georg (1875-1924) and Columbus Josef (1877-1970). In the same year he acquired a plot of land at
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From 1869 to about 1873, Max kept a herd of monkeys in a garden house in
Schwanthalerstraße in Munich, which he photographed and sketched. The animals were cared for by his mother and his sister Caroline, who lived with him in Munich. They did not tolerate the Munich climate well and died rather
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to commission for designs. Max enjoyed considerable success during his lifetime and could command almost any price for his paintings, but at the beginning of the 1890s, his star began to decline. Modern art movements such as
Impressionism excited the public more than his classical painting. Max
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what is now Paul-Heyse-Strasse 33 in Munich and had his brother-in-law in law, the architect Bela
Benzcur, build a spacious city villa with a studio building behind it. Here he lived in seclusion with his wife and children. Summers he spent in
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Gabriel von Max was a significant artist to emerge from the Piloty School, because he abandoned the themes of the
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school well into the 1870s, later moving toward a more muted palette, using fewer, clearer colors. Characteristic of the ethereal style of Gabriel Max is "The Last Token" (in the
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in Mannheim. He owned a large scientific collection of prehistoric ethnological and anthropological finds, including one of the largest collections of skulls of his time.
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preferred selection of contemporary artists whom the "Committee for the Procurement and Evaluation of Stollwerck Pictures" proposed to the Cologne chocolate producer
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and Anna Schumann. He received his first artistic training in history painting from his father.
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