Max Eduard Giese

He was the first son born to the architect, Ernst Giese, who had taken a professorship at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf the year before, and his wife, Gertrud née Barteldes.

The following year, his father moved back to his hometown of Dresden, to become a partner in a design firm.

He then went to Munich, where he was a private student of Ludwig Dill, after which he settled back in Dresden, as a free-lance painter.

[2] In 1897, he married a fellow painter, Martha Schmook (1860–1923), originally from Breslau and one of the founders of the Münchner Künstlerinnenverein [de] (Female Artists' Association).

[3] In 1904, together with Carl Strathmann, René Reinicke, Hans Beat Wieland, Rudolf Köselitz, and several others, he was one of the co-founders of the Munich Watercolorists Association.