Max Band

1900–1974

Max Band was born in 1900 in Naumiestis (now Kudirkos Naumiestis, Šakiai district) and died in 1974 in Hollywood, USA. Until 1920 he lived in Marijampolė and taught himself painting by making signs for Jewish shops. In 1920–1923 he studied at a private art academy in Berlin; from 1925 he lived in Paris, where his work was strongly influenced by Cézanne and Picasso, and from 1940 in the USA. In 1934 he was commissioned to paint a portrait of US President F. D. Roosevelt, and in 1964 he illustrated the Bible. He painted figurative compositions, small landscapes, cityscapes and portraits full of symbolism and melancholy. His works are held by the Lithuanian National Museum of Art and the Petit Palais in Paris.

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