Corneille Max (Munich 1875-1924 Munich)
Die Biene [The Bee] (Portrait of the Artist's Wife)
three-color etching
proof impression
1919
46,4 x 36,0 cm
signed, inscribed, and dated in pencil lower right: Corneille Max Amerland 1919
detailed breakdown of three-color components inscribed in pencil lower left (see photo below)
Corneille Max was the eldest son of artist Gabriel von Max. Corneille studied under Gabriel von Hackl and Anton Ažbe and became known as a portrait and landscape painter as well as an etcher. He was a member of the German Association of Artists [Deutschen Künstlerbund]. His brother, Colombo Max (1877-1970), was also an artist.
In 1905, Corneille Max married Wilhelmine Gedon (1877–1943), known as "Stora" or "Storchl," daughter of the noted Munich architect and artist Lorenz Gedon (1844-1883). During the First World War, Corneille suffered a poison gas injury, from the sequelae of which he died in 1924 at the age of 48.
Corneille's wife "Stora" was the model for the etching Die Biene.
Publication History:
Georg Jacob (Jakob) Wolf, Corneille Max – Acht farbige Gemäldewiedergaben (Leipzig: Verlag E.A. Seemann, 1925) (from the series E. A. Seemanns Künstlermappen), at pg. 3, reproducing a detail from the etching or painting Die Biene showing head of the woman.
