Max Herman Maxy and the Romanian Avant-Garde

Synopsis: The film explores the life of Romanian artist M.H. Maxy (1895-1971, who played a major role in the history of modern painting in Romania. While many of his contemporaries emigrated to the West from Romania and some became internationally known, Maxy did not - apart from studying in Berlin in 1922 and 1923 - leave his home country. Constructivism dominated Maxy’s early works, but he later began painting in a moderate modernist style. Throughout the 1920s and the 1930s, Maxy also displayed his art in Bucharest, often together with other artists. He became a scenographer with the Yiddish theater in Bucharest in 1939. In 1941, when anti-Jewish legislation was passed in Romania by the fascist regime, Maxy became the director of the Jewish Theater. During this time, Maxy also taught students excluded from the Romanian public education system at the private Jewish School of Arts. He became the director of the National Museum of Art of Romania and, in 1949, a university professor at the Nicolae Grigorescu Institute of Arts, as the School of Fine Arts was now called. Maxy died in Bucharest in 1971, at the age of 75.The documentary aims to introduce the major works of an artist who has remained little known outside Romania.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Subjects: Art
Keywords: artists; modern art; Modernism; Romania; constructivism

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