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Max Frey (Austrian painter)

Austrian painter (1902-1955)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ1912519 ↗
Source-derived summary

Max Frey (14 February 1902 – 26 November 1955) was an Austrian painter. His work was part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1948 Summer Olympics.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Max Frey (Austrian painter)” is austrian painter (1902-1955). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Frey, Austrian and painter, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1902, 1955, 1948—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1902-02-14. For this dossier, Frey, Austrian and painter is the immediate research focus.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1912519. VIAF identifies the subject as 35554927. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1902, 1955 and 1948.

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This entry incorporates text from “Max Frey (Austrian painter)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.