One of the artists collected in depth by Charles and Emma Frye is Gabriel von Max, a Munich Secessionist best known for his paintings of beautiful, dead women. Max trained for several years in Prague before completing his artistic studies in Munich in 1867. He established his own atelier there and later taught history painting at the Munich Academy. Max's dark palette and interests in spirituality, hypnotism, somnambulism, and parapsychological phenomena influenced many late-nineteenth-century German artists.

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