Duke Maximilian Joseph of Bavaria, known informally as Max in Bayern, was a member of a junior branch of the royal House of Wittelsbach who were Kings of Bavaria, and a promoter of Bavarian folk-music
Maximilian Joseph, c. 1870
A young Duke Maximilian Joseph. Portrait painting by Joseph Karl Stieler, between 1825 and 1831.
Engagement portrait of Duke Maximilian Joseph in Bavaria and Princess Ludovika of Bavaria. Painting by Joseph Karl Stieler, 1828.
Possenhofen Castle
Empress Elisabeth of Austria
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Elisabeth, nicknamed Sisi, was Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary from her marriage to Franz Joseph I on 24 April 1854 until her assassination in 1898.
Duke Maximilian Joseph in Bavaria
…branch of the royal House of Wittelsbach who were Kings of Bavaria, and a promoter of Bavarian folk-music. He is most famous today as the father of Empress Elisabeth of Austria ("Sisi") and great-grandfather of King Leopold III of Belgium. Maximilian Joseph was born on 4 December 1808 at the Neue Residenz at Bamberg in the…
Formal portrait, 1867
Equestrian portrait of Elisabeth at Possenhofen Castle, age 15 (1853)
![The young Elisabeth shortly after becoming Austrian Empress, by Amanda Bergstedt [sv] (1855)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Amanda_Bergstedt_001.jpg/500px-Amanda_Bergstedt_001.jpg)
The young Elisabeth shortly after becoming Austrian Empress, by Amanda Bergstedt [sv] (1855)
Portrait of Empress Elisabeth, 1857 aged 19