biography of Max BAND (1900-1974)

Birth place: Naumestis, Lithuania

Addresses: Hollywood, CA

Profession: Painter, sculptor, writer

Studied: Acad. Art, Berlin, Ger., 1920-1922; also in Paris, France.

Exhibited: AIC, 1954; Mus. Petit Palais, Paris, 1955; CPLH, 1956; B'nai B'rith Mus., Washington, DC, 1958; Jewish Community Ctr., Long Beach, Calif., 1961; also exhibited extensively US & Europe.

Member: Hon. mem. Calif. Art Club; fel., Int. Inst. Arts & Lett.

Work: Mus. Luxembourg, Petit Palais, Paris & other European mus.; Fr. Art Inst., Philadelphia, Pa.; Riverside Mus.; LACMA; PMG; MoMA. Commissions: sculpture, F.D. Roosevelt, White House, Washington, DC, 1934; bust, President Roosevelt presented to President Kennedy, White House, 1961.

Comments: Publications: auth., History of Contemporary art," 1935 & "Themes from the Bible." Teaching: artist-in-residence, Univ. Judaism, Los Angeles, 1964.

Sources: WW73; WW47."