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(1) Emanuel Max, Ritter von Wachstein
(b Bürgstein, Bohemia [now Sloup, Czech Republic], 19 Oct 1810; d Prague, 21 Feb 1901). Sculptor. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Prague (1827–31), under Josef Bergler and Frantisek Waldherr (1784–1835). He lived in Vienna (1833–7) and Rome (1839–49), working on commissions, mainly for members of the Austrian and Bohemian gentry. These included portraits (e.g. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1837; Prague, Libs Facs & Insts Charles U.), allegorical and religious statuary (St Ludmila, 1849; Prague Cathedral) and monuments. After his return to Prague in 1849, he was able to adapt to the conventions of the time, helped partly by his brother, Josef Calasanza Max (1804–55), who ran a sculptor’s workshop. The Max brothers’ activity constituted an essential stylistic shift away from Neo-classicism and the Empire style and towards a Romantic form of realism. Among the largest projects in Prague on which the brothers collaborated were the monument to Francis I and the monument to Marshal Josef Radecky (1858; both Prague, Lapidarium Hist. Mus.). From 1853 to 1861 they also replaced seven of the Baroque sculptures (destr. 1848) on the Charles Bridge in Prague. Many sculptors of the following generation trained in the brothers’ studio.
Part of the Max family
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