Max Oppenheimer (Mopp) was born in Vienna and enrolled at the Vienna Academy 1900 at the age of fifteen. He studied at the Academy in Prague 1903-06 and on his return to Vienna, exhibited at the “Kunstschau” in 1908 along with Egon Schiele and A.P.Gutersloh. He painted portraits of well-known writers and musicians during those years in Vienna. Exhibited 200 works in the Hagenbund rooms in 1924 and moved to Berlin 1926-1938 before fleeing from the Nazis to Switzerland from where he left for New York in 1939.