![]() Presidents (Carter, Ford, Bush, Sr., and Reagan), Max was approached by the inaugural committee in 1993 to create posters for Bill Clinton's inauguration. Here, he learned the rigid disciplines of realism and developed into a Realist painter. At the age of sixteen, he realized his childhood fantasy and arrived in America.Īfter completing high school, Max continued his art studies at The Art Students League, a renowned traditional academy across from Carnegie Hall in Manhattan. During this relatively short stay, Peter enrolled in an art school and began to absorb the culture and artistic heritage of Paris. In 1953, Peter's family emigrated to America after a six-month visit to Paris. From American comic books, radio broadcasts, and cinema shows, young Peter formed an impression of the land of Captain Marvel, Flash Gordon, swing jazz, swashbucklers, freedom, and creativity. With all that richness and diversity of culture, he still had a dream of an adventure yet to come in a far-off land called America. He lived in a pagoda-style house situated near a Buddhist monastery, a Sikh temple, and a Viennese cafe. Born in Berlin, Germany in 1937, Peter Max was raised in Shanghai, China, where he spent the first ten years of his life.
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