Max Weber

Max Weber was a versatile painter, sculptor and writer who lived from 1881 to 1961. He was born in the Russian Empire. Together with his Orthodox Jewish parents he migrated to the United States, where he took his first steps as an artist. He departed for several years to go to France where he got acquainted with the avant-garde art of Matisse, Picasso and many others. In his paintings Weber shows himself to be an able exponent of various artistic styles, from figurative to cubistic and fauve. He produced dozens of paintings with Jewish life as their subject.