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1892 Czechoslavakia - 1958. Known for: Mod figure, landscape and religious painting.
The following, submitted May 2005, is from Louis Marano, who wrote: "I am in possession (minus its cover) of the February, 1945, issue of Ladies Home Journal -- Vol. LXII, No. 2. The Contents page... Read full biography
The following, submitted May 2005, is from Louis Marano, who wrote: "I am in possession (minus its cover) of the February, 1945, issue of Ladies Home Journal -- Vol. LXII, No. 2. The Contents page has a photo of Kopf in front of a painting of a black man. Below the photo is the text:. Maxim Kopf,... Read full biography
The following, submitted May 2005, is from Louis Marano, who wrote: "I am in possession (minus its cover) of the February, 1945, issue of Ladies Home Journal -- Vol. LXII, No. 2. The Contents page has a photo of Kopf in front of a painting of a black man. Below the photo is the text:. Maxim Kopf, who painted our cover design, says, "I never wanted to be anything but a painter, an ambition in which I received no encouragement whatever from my family. But my father finally allowed me to enter the... Read full biography
The following, submitted May 2005, is from Louis Marano, who wrote: "I am in possession (minus its cover) of the February, 1945, issue of Ladies Home Journal -- Vol. LXII, No. 2. The Contents page has a photo of Kopf in front of a painting of a black man. Below the photo is the text:. Maxim Kopf, who painted our cover design, says, "I never wanted to be anything but a painter, an ambition in which I received no encouragement whatever from my family. But my father finally allowed me to enter the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, whose entrance examinations I had already secretly taken and passed. During the last war I fought in a Czech regiment (with little enthusiasm but some honor) for His Majesty's Austro-Hungarian Empire. I got out of it... Read full biography
The following, submitted May 2005, is from Louis Marano, who wrote: "I am in possession (minus its cover) of the February, 1945, issue of Ladies Home Journal -- Vol. LXII, No. 2. The Contents page has a photo of Kopf in front of a painting of a black man. Below the photo is the text:. Maxim Kopf, who painted our cover design, says, "I never wanted to be anything but a painter, an ambition in which I received no encouragement whatever from my family. But my father finally allowed me to enter the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, whose entrance examinations I had already secretly taken and passed. During the last war I fought in a Czech regiment (with little enthusiasm but some honor) for His Majesty's Austro-Hungarian Empire. I got out of it more dead than alive, and His Majesty's Empire did not get out of it at all. But Czechoslovakia was born, so I went happily home to Prague and b... Read full biography
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Art Method
- •Easel Painting
Art Media
Art Style
Art Subject
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •New York City
- •Religion, Mysticism, Spirituality
- •Urban Landscape, Cityscape
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Europe
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
- •Figure Specialty
Exhibition of Museum
- •Art Institute of Chicago
- •Corcoran Gallery and/or Art School, Washington DC
Exhibition By An Art School
- •The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts