Max (Mopp) Oppenheimer - Artist Info

About Max (Mopp) Oppenheimer

Name variants

Maximilian Mopp, Max Oppenheim
  • Biography

    Max Oppenheimer (Vienna, 1885-New York, 1954), also known under the pseudonym "Mopp", was a landscape, genre, portrait and still life painter. He was also a graphic designer and a writer.

    From 1900 to 1903, he attended the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts under Christian Griepenkerl and Sigmund L'Allemand, and from 1904 through 1906 he studied under Franz Thiele at the Prague Academy. In 1906 Oppenheimer joined the Prague group 'OSMA' (the Eight), one of the first associations of Czech avant-garde artists.

    At the time, Oppenheimer's style revealed a growing interest in Impressionist painting, especially that of Max Liebermann. In 1908, he moved back to Vienna, joining the circle of Oskar Kokoschka ...

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