Maximilian Suppantschitsch was born in 1865 in Vienna. He studied with Eduard Peithner of Lichtenfels at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and made several study tours in Austria-Hungary and Italy. In 1900 Suppantschitsch was a founding member of the artists' association Hagenbund and showed his work at the World Exhibition in Paris. He enjoyed great prestige in Vienna. He won the Königswarter Prize, and he was awarded the Little Golden State Medal in 1908 and the Drasche prize in 1915. He devoted himself mainly to landscape painting.

Maximilian Suppantschitsch (1865-1953) studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and traveled through Italy and Austria-Hungary. In 1897, he became a member of the Viennese Künstlerbund and in 1900 he was a co-founder of the Hagenbund. In the same year he took also part in the Paris World Exhibition. After the War, he moved from Vienna and settled in Dürnstein. (cbo)