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Peter Max is one of the most important contemporary artists of our time. Is the largest and longest-running dealer of Peter Max artwork in the world. Since 1970, Park West Gallery has sold thousands of unique Max works, most exclusive to Park West Gallery. Statue of Liberty Flag with Heart.
Welcome to Peter Max Mania, where our crazy goal is to catalog every Peter Max work. Peter Max is an iconic artist. Of painters during the 1960s with his psychelic colored works that helped make him a household name. Max is known for his colorful works, including his many depictions of the Statue of Liberty. Even huge Boeing 777 airplanes have been painted by Peter Max! .
Born in 1912, the son of a Potsdam boatyard owner, he would become a DKW dealer in Berlin at an early age and had already competed in the 2000 km Tour of Germany with the DKW sidecar team. In 1938 he joined the Auto Union factory team and won the Monte-Carlo Rallye aboard a 1000cc DKW. 1939 he would finish second in the Monte-Carlo Rallye and enter the Liége-Rome-Liége where he would finish third driving a 2 liter Wanderer. It was at this time he would meet an engineer named Vogelsang.