10 Facts About Peter Max

Peter Max gains a lot of fame in today's contemporary art world. Since the cover of LIFE magazine in 1965, his pop art style is at the forefront. Marx's history is as colorful as his own paintings. This is 10 interesting facts about this unique artist and illustrator:

When Peter Max was born in Germany, his parents brought him out of birth and took him to Shanghai, China to escape the Holocaust. He spent the first decade of his life there, living in a tower style house located between Buddhist temple, Sikhs temple and many Viennese cafés.

If Peter Max has the second career choice, he will be an astronomer. "If I choose art, I will be an astronomer, I am fascinated by the vast distance of the universe and the vast world in the atom."

The US Postal Service has asked Max to create a stamp of the first 40 cents. In addition, his work titled "Protect the Environment" was used in the United States as the stamp of the first ten cents.

July 4, 1976, Max started a tradition of drawing a large portrait of the statue of liberty on July 4 every year.

In the 1980's Max was very personally influenced by the live aid concert background work. Inspired by this cause, he quickly began a series of works called "better world" series. This picture entitled "I Love the World" draws an angel holding a planet.

Max was fortunate to have portrayed six US portraits (Carter, Ford, Bush, Reagan, Clinton, and Obama) and many other White House committees for the White House.

7. In 1990, Max purchased 36 Corvettes dating from 1956 to 1986 every year. It costs up to approximately 500,000 dollars for the entire series. He intends to paint them with the signature they signed, but he never completed this project.

8. In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the United Nations, Max created a series of 50 paintings with a combination of bright colors of buildings that are UN landmarks.

10. Baterbys Art Gallery gathered more than 100 Peter Max's most unique and famous works of art. Please participate in our Peter Max event from 6 pm to 9 pm on 11th October 2013 and see these and many other Max works. Even if you have a house, you can keep a history at home and at the office. Part of the proceeds will be donated to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Peter Max was born in Berlin in 1937, but when he was still young his family moved to China. In fact, young Max will move from Tibet to Africa, Israel, and Europe, along with family. In Max in the United States, Applied Art Institute and Visual Art School of Platform Student Association are both located in New York. After closing his design studio in 1964, Peter began making graphic prints with his notable paintings.

Max was the subject of many books throughout his career. Max announced "Peter Mack Spain America" ​​by President Gerald Ford and the next president Jimmy Carter by King Sweden Carl XVI Gustaf in 1976 in the White House. In 2002, Harry N. Abrams issued "Art of Peter Max" written by Charles Riley III, Ph.D. In 2013, Max published the biography of the preface to the astrophysicists "Peter Max's Universe". Neil · Degras · Tyson

In 1976, "Peter Max Paints America" ​​was ordered by ASEA of Sweden. This book commemorates the 200th anniversary of the United States and includes the following preamble. "Peter Max Paints America is based on the art of Sweden's 200th anniversary of the establishment of the United States of America and recognizes the friendship of people in Sweden and the Americas.The Sweden is one of the first countries that extended friendship to a new country It's one. "

In 1970, many of Max's products and posters appeared in M. H. "Peter Max's World" exhibition. San Francisco Deyang Memorial Museum. The U.S. Postal Authority ordered Max to create a 10 cents stamp to mark the World Expo '74 World Expo in Spokane, Washington State, and Marx used "Jumper of the Universe" and "Smile of · The Sacred "is the theme of" Protecting the environment "with clouds, solar rays, sea boats. On July 4, 1976, Max began the series of Statue of Liberty. And it led him to help with Chrysler CEO Lee Iacocca and the statue.