Max Oppenheimer (artist)
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Max Oppenheimer (1 July 1885 – 19 May 1954), later known as MOPP, was an Austrian painter and graphic artist.


Life

Oppenheimer was born in Vienna on 1 July 1885. He studied from 1900 to 1903 at the
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there under
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and
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, and then – from 1903 to 1906 – at the
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in Prague, under Franz Thiele. Along with
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, with whom he shared a studio in 1910 and
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he was considered as being one of Austria's leading
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artists. His work was influenced by several movements including
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,
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and
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. His work was included in two art exhibitions in 1908 and 1909 in Vienna co-organised by
Gustav Klimt Gustav Klimt (14 July 1862 – 6 February 1918) was an Austrian symbolist painter and a founding member of the Vienna Secession movement. His work helped define the Art Nouveau style in Europe. Klimt is known for his paintings, murals, sket ...
. His first one-man show was held in Munich at the Moderne Galerie in 1910. He was known for his portraits of contemporary cultural figures such as
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and
Arnold Schoenberg Arnold Schoenberg or Schönberg (13 September 187413 July 1951) was an Austrian and American composer, music theorist, teacher and writer. He was among the first Modernism (music), modernists who transformed the practice of harmony in 20th-centu ...
. Between 1915 and 1925, Oppenheimer lived mainly in Switzerland, then Germany, before returning to Vienna. With the invasion of Austria by Germany in 1938, Oppenheimer fled to the United States. He died in New York City in 1954.


References


Further reading

* Echte, Bernhard, ed. Max Oppenheimer (MOPP), 1885–1954: Gemälde und Graphiken. Exh. cat., Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Munich. Baden: Stiftung Langmatt Sidney und Jenny Brown, 1995. * Tobias G. Natter (ed.): MOPP: Max Oppenheimer, 1885–1954. Exh. cat. Vienna: Jewish Museum Vienna, 1994. * Pabst, Michael. Max Oppenheimer: Verzeichnis der Druckgrafik. Munich: Galerie Michael Pabst, 1993. {{DEFAULTSORT:Oppenheimer, Max 19th-century Austrian painters 19th-century Austrian male artists 1885 births 1954 deaths