Marten Ykes "Max" Nauta (2 April 1896 – 18 December 1957) was a Dutch painter, especially noted for his portraits, and stained glass artist.

He had contact with the Czech artists Alphonse Mucha, Max Svabinsky and Alois Bileck and the sculptor Jaroslav Horejc.

[2] From 1926, back in Amsterdam, Nauta's work was influenced by George Hendrik Breitner, and later more by the Frenchmen Charles Daubigny and Carolus-Duran and the Englishman J. M. W. Turner.

High points of his oeuvre as a glass artist are to be found in the Grote Kerk of The Hague (1930), the NCRV building at Hilversum, the Dutch Church, Austin Friars in London, the memorial windows of the Bataafse Petroleum Maatschappij in Amsterdam and the 18 windows of St. Andrew's Church, Roxbourne,[5] Harrow, West London, England.

[6] Nauta's work was included in the 1939 exhibition and sale Onze Kunst van Heden (Our Art of Today) at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.