Max Brückner

Johannes Max Brückner (5 August 1860 – 1 November 1934) was a German geometer, known for his collection of polyhedral models.

Brückner was born in Hartau, in the Kingdom of Saxony, a town that is now part of Zittau, Germany.

[1] He completed a Ph.D. at Leipzig University in 1886, supervised by Felix Klein and Wilhelm Scheibner, with a dissertation concerning conformal maps.

[3][4] The shapes first studied in this book include the final stellation of the icosahedron and the compound of three octahedra, made famous by M. C. Escher's print Stars.

Malkevitch writes that the book's "beautiful pictures of uniform polyhedra ... served as an inspiration to people later".

Brückner's photo of the final stellation of the icosahedron , a stellated polyhedron first studied by Brückner
Drawings in Vielecke und Vielflache from 1900, including a stellation of the icosahedron and stereographic projections of the disdyakis dodeca- and triacontahedron
Drawings of 4-polytopes in an essay from 1909