Max Oppenheimer

Style: Expressionism;

Place: Vienna

Born: 1885

Death: 1954

Biography:

Max Oppenheimer, also known as MOPP, was an Austrian painter and graphic artist. He was born in Vienna on 1 July 1885 and studied at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Vienna and the Academy of Fine Arts of Prague. Along with Egon Schiele, he was considered one of Austria's leading avant-garde artists. His work was influenced by several different movements including expressionism, cubism and futurism. He was known for his portraits of contemporary cultural figures such as Thomas Mann and Arnold Schoenberg. He lived in Switzerland and Germany between 1915 and 1925, before returning to Vienna. With the invasion of Austria by Germany in 1938, Oppenheimer fled to the United States. He died in New York in 1954.