Biografie von Max KALISH (1891-1945)

Birth place: Poland

Death place: NYC

Addresses: Great Neck, NY/Cleveland, OH, c.1893; NYC, 1932

Profession: Sculptor, teacher

Studied: Cleveland School Art with Herman Matzen; NAD, with A. Stirling Calder, Herbert Adams, Isadore Konti & Caraino di Sciarrino Pietro; Acad. Colarossi, 1912 with Paul Wayland Bartlett and …cole des Beaux-Arts with Injalbert

Exhibited: CMA, 1924 (prize), 1925 (prize); AIC, 1926, 1928-29; Grand Central Art Gal., 1929 (prize), 1933, 1935.

Member: ANA, 1933; NSS; All. A. Am.

Work: NGA; CMA; Newark (NJ) Mus.; Mus. Art, Amherst College; Art Gal., Canajoharie, NY

Comments: Known for bronzes of industrial workers in the 1920s and 30s. Also carved some marble figures of nudes and heads of babies. His last sculpture is dated 1938.

Sources: WW40; Fort, The Figure in American Sculpture, 206 (w/repro.),cites birthplace as Valozin, Russia (Lithuania).