Exhibition about Max Schneider and the Vienna Medical Faculty 1923-1938

The collections of the Josephinum contain approximately 400 photographs by Max Schneider, including leading figures of Viennese medicine such as Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Clemens Pirquet and Guido Holzknecht. To mark the 100th anniversary of his work at the Medical Faculty, the predecessor of the Medical University of Vienna, the Medical Collections of MedUni Vienna will be exhibiting the work and life of the "Master of Physician Portraits" for the first time, starting on 1 June 2023. A press tour will be conducted on 30 May 2023. On the 100th anniversary of his work at the Vienna Medical Faculty, the work and life of photographer Max Schneider will be presented for the first time at the Josephinum as part of FOTO WIEN 2023. The successful and distinguished portrait photographer had to flee Vienna in 1938 due to his Jewish origins. His journey took him to India, where he continued his work as a portraitist, and to the USA, where he died in 1958. From 1913 onwards, 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.