Max Weber (artist)

Max Weber ( born April 18, 1881 in Białystok, † October 4, 1961 in Great Neck, NY ) was a Polish- American painter and sculptor.

He emigrated in 1891 with his strict Jewish parents in Brooklyn NY in the United States. There he attended from 1898 to 1900, the Pratt Institute, where he was taught in art and design. In 1905 he studied in Paris at the Académie Julian with Jean- Paul Laurens, hereafter. At the Académie de la Grande Chaumiere and the Academie Colarossi He made ​​the acquaintance of Henri Rousseau, is the circle of Henri Matisse joined and learned 1907 Pablo Picasso know. In 1909 he returned to the United States. From 1912, his painting style turned to Cubism. 1913 Weber took part in the Armory Show in New York.