Iconic Art of Peter Max Comes to St. Louis Art Gallery

JEWISH LIGHT
By Leslie Brownstein

"Western Wall" by Peter Max

MISSOURI - After a 10-year absence from St. Louis, [Peter] Max will be in town this weekend where his exhibit "Colors of a Better World" is on display at the Ober Anderson Gallery in Clayton. Max was born Peter Max Finkelstein in Germany in 1937 to Jewish parents who fled the Nazis. They first landed the family in Shanghai, China; then Haifa, Israel; Paris, France, and eventually, Brooklyn, New York, where they settled in 1953. And while he doesn't like to be labeled as "a Jewish artist," he says he is very proud of his "Jewishness," adding, "My father's father was from Poland and he was a Hasid. I lived in Israel and I speak fluent Hebrew." [link]