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The Master of Physician Portraits

Exterior view of the Josephinum, en white baroque building, in the center a female statue
Josephinum - Medizinische Sammlungen GmbH © Reiner Riedler
Exterior view of the Josephinum, en white baroque building, in the center a female statue

Max Schneider and the Vienna Medical Faculty from 1923 to 1938

1 June - 11 November 2023

On the 100th anniversary of his work at the Medical Faculty, the work and life of the photographer Max Schneider will be presented for the first time at the Josephinum as part of Foto Wien 2023. The successful and respected portrait photographer had to flee Vienna in 1938 due to his Jewish origins. His path took him to India, where he continued his work as a portraitist, and to the USA, where he died in 1958.

In 1913 Max Schneider (1887-1958) worked as a photographer in Vienna and, due to the proximity of his studio to the medical faculty, photographed leading medical figures. Technically adept and artistically high-quality, he produced numerous portraits. He takes a familiar, sometimes almost intimate look at the greats of Viennese medicine and thus brings out their characteristic traits. His high-quality images are popular and are printed in daily newspapers and medical journals as well as transferred into drawings, paintings and prints. Schneider employs noble printing processes, thus giving his pictures the status of unique specimens in contrast to easily reproducible photography.

Regardless of political orientation, Schneider photographed the medical elite and created a kaleidoscope of diverse personalities that was brutally smashed in 1938. The photo studio is "Aryanized" and Schneider's photographs are henceforth sold under a different name.

The collections of the Josephinum contain around 400 photographs by Max Schneider. These include leading figures of Viennese medicine such as Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Clemens Pirquet and Guido Holzknecht.

Venue

Josephinum Collections of the Medical of University Vienna

Währinger Straße 25
1090 Wien

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Current Dates

  • Wed. 27 Sep 2023, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
  • Thu. 28 Sep 2023, 10 a.m. - 8 p.m.
  • Fri. 29 Sep 2023, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
  • Sat. 30 Sep 2023, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
  • Wed. 04 Oct 2023, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
  • Thu. 05 Oct 2023, 10 a.m. - 8 p.m.
  • Fri. 06 Oct 2023, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
  • Sat. 07 Oct 2023, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
  • Wed. 11 Oct 2023, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
  • Thu. 12 Oct 2023, 10 a.m. - 8 p.m.
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All Dates

September

  • Wed. 27 Sep 2023, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
  • Thu. 28 Sep 2023, 10 a.m. - 8 p.m.
  • Fri. 29 Sep 2023, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
  • Sat. 30 Sep 2023, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.

October

  • Wed. 04 Oct 2023, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
  • Thu. 05 Oct 2023, 10 a.m. - 8 p.m.
  • Fri. 06 Oct 2023, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
  • Sat. 07 Oct 2023, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
  • Wed. 11 Oct 2023, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
  • Thu. 12 Oct 2023, 10 a.m. - 8 p.m.
  • Fri. 13 Oct 2023, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
  • Sat. 14 Oct 2023, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
  • Wed. 18 Oct 2023, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
  • Thu. 19 Oct 2023, 10 a.m. - 8 p.m.
  • Fri. 20 Oct 2023, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
  • Sat. 21 Oct 2023, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
  • Wed. 25 Oct 2023, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
  • Thu. 26 Oct 2023, 10 a.m. - 8 p.m.
  • Fri. 27 Oct 2023, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
  • Sat. 28 Oct 2023, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.

November

  • Wed. 01 Nov 2023, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
  • Thu. 02 Nov 2023, 10 a.m. - 8 p.m.
  • Fri. 03 Nov 2023, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
  • Sat. 04 Nov 2023, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
  • Wed. 08 Nov 2023, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
  • Thu. 09 Nov 2023, 10 a.m. - 8 p.m.
  • Fri. 10 Nov 2023, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
  • Sat. 11 Nov 2023, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
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