German landscape and animal painter. Born in 1884 in Fürstenberg/Oder (now Eisenhüttenstadt), lived until 1955 in Haimhausen near Dachau. Trained at Adolf Schlabitz's private painting school in Berlin, studied 1902-04 at Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Berlin-Charlottenburg, then 1904-13 at Munich Academy under Ludwig von Herterich and Heinrich von Zügel.

Studied in Paris 1909-10 at "La Palette" and Colarossi studio. Military service 1911-12 and 1914-17. Founded a painters' colony in Haimhausen and a private painting school in 1925.

Exhibited 1938-44 at the Great German Art Exhibition in Munich. Member of the Reich Association of German Visual Artists. Honorary citizen of Würth am Rhein in 1949.

Max Bergmann was born in 1884 in Fürstenberg and died in 1955 in Haimhausen/Pfalz. Bergmann was a master student of Heinrich von Zügel. He studied at the Academies in Munich and Berlin. In the latter city he visited the Aktmalklasse of Ludwig von Herterich and from 1903 the Tiermalklasse by Heinrich von Rein, whose protégé he was in 1907.

With his master, Max Bergmann spent the summer months in Wörth am Rhein. In 1909/10 he studied in Paris and tours took him to Northern France, Denmark, Norway, Austria and Hungary. From 1910 his works were exhibited on an almost annual basis in the Munich Glass Palace.