Beauties of The Evening: The Art of Max Nonnenbruch

Max Nonnenbruch (1857 in Viersen - 1922 in Munich) was a German painter of the Munich School of Neoclassicism and Symbolism. Max Nonnenbruch was born the son of cadastral inspector Alwin Nonnenbruch and his wife Karoline nee Gössling in Viersen. He spent his childhood and his first school years in Mönchengladbach. From 1868 the family lived in Bonn, where he attended the Royal Gymnasium. In the school term 1871-1872 he was Obertertianer (9th grade), at the closing celebrations of the school year in 1872 he wrote the poem The Battle of Friedrich Schiller. Even as a teenager, he developed the desire to become a painter. From the Autumn of 1875 he studied for two-half years at the Art Academy in Dusseldorf. On May 2, 1877, he enrolled at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and studied among others with Wilhelm von Lindenschmit until the year 1879. He composed the text for the cycle of pictures From the Four Seasons of Eduard Unger (1853-1894). Nonnenbruch undertook in 1880 sev