ARTIST PETER MAX (Born: 1937)

German born American artist, Peter Max is best known for his fantastically colorful images and exciting exuberant style. Pop artist Max, like his contemporary Andy Warhol, had created his own artistic force with iconic figures and has captured the faces of the Statue of Liberty, the Mona Lisa, Mick Jagger and George Washington in his one of a king Technicolor style. This acclaimed artist’s work is also held in prestigious museum collections around the world.

Born in Berlin, Peter lived in China, as a child and traveled to India, Africa, and Israel and Paris, until his family moved to the U.S. Trained at the Art Students League, Pratt Institute, and the School of Visual Arts in New York. When he left art school in the 1960s he began producing, "cosmic imagery” that catapulted him to prominence and garnered him the cover story in Life magazine.

Max is noted for his surging graphic designs in bright, vibrating colors while incorporating psychedelic and celestial motifs. Max is a creative and prolific artist who has worked with acrylics, oils, water colors, pastels, charcoal, etchings, engravings, lithographs, serigraphs, silk screens, sculpture and graphics. Max's Cosmic '60s art Pop imagery captured the imagination of an entire generation and catapulted the young artist to fame and fortune. Max is a painter for four former U.S. Presidents Carter, Ford, Bush and Reagan and created posters for Bill Clinton's inauguration.

Max has had  numerous International museum shows, and gallery shows worldwide. His works appear in the prominent collections of many major museums.His trademark artworks have achieved international fame.

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