Max Weber (1881-1961), A Jewish Figure, 1945. India ink and watercolor on paper. Signed and dated. 35.5X15 cm, in a 51X32 cm frame (minor blemishes to frame). Unexamined out of frame. Max Weber (1881-1961) was born in Bialystok (now Poland) and emigrated to the United States with his family in 1891. He studied art at the Pratt Institute in New York and later at the Académie Julian, the Académie Colarossi and the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris, where he associated with influential artists in the cubist movement. Weber was one of the first American cubist painters. In 1920 he abandoned cubist abstraction and began to paint in a more figurative style, influenced by German expressionism and fauvism. In the 1930s he started painting Biblical and Jewish subjects, often painting scenes from Jewish life inspired by his childhood in Bialystok.