Peter Max

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Peter Max (born October 19, 1937 as Peter Finkelstein) is an American Pop artist.

Continental's 'Peter Max', a Boeing 777, at George Bush Intercontinental Airport
Continental's 'Peter Max', a Boeing 777, at George Bush Intercontinental Airport

He was born in Berlin, Germany and raised in Shanghai, China and in Israel before his family settled in the United States in 1953. The young artist trained in New York at the Art Students League, Pratt Institute, and the School of Visual Arts. He adopted the name "Max" from another student and aspiring artist in the Art Student's League (Max Oppenheim, born NYC in 1930).[citation needed] After completing his studies, Max opened a design studio and gained success as a designer for books, posters and products. Max closed his studio in 1964 and began making his signature colorful silkscreens.

Max's art work, which he called "up art," was a part of the psychedelic movement in graphic design. His work was influential and much imitated in advertising design in the late 1960s and early 1970s. One of Continental Airlines' Boeing 777 aircraft (registered N77014) sports a special livery designed by Max. [1]

He owns a collection of 36 Corvettes dating from 1956 to 1989 - one of each year they were made. They're currently in the garage beneath a condo in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn (a former Daily News printing plant), and have been neglected since he bought them for just under $0.5M in 1990, although he still intends to one day paint them [2].

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