Maxy, along with artists Iosif Ross and Iosif Steurer, organized an
art exhibit in
Iași in 1918 which depicted scenes from the World War I front; it was in that year he started using the name "Maxy". In 1922 and 1923, Maxy studied in
Berlin,
Germany, along with another Romanian artist named
Arthur Segal. During this time, he displayed some of his art in Berlin and joined the
November Group, a Socialist German cultural organization which promoted
expressionist art.
Constructivism dominated Maxy's early works, but he later began painting in a
moderate modernist style (noted for its realism and narrative mode). Throughout the 1920s and the 1930s, Maxy also displayed his art in Bucharest, often together with other artists. He became a scenographer (set designer) for
the Jewish theater in Bucharest in 1939. In 1941, when anti-Jewish legislation was passed in Romania, Maxy became the director of this theater. During this time, Maxy also taught students excluded from the Romanian public education system at the private Jewish School of Arts. He became the director of the
National Museum of Art of Romania and, in 1949, a
university professor at the Nicolae Grigorescu Institute of Arts, as the School of Fine Arts was now called. Beginning in 1954, he received many awards from the
Communist Romanian government, including the title "artist emerit" (meaning "emeritus artist"). Maxy died in Bucharest in 1971, at the age of 75. His works are shown in many Romanian art exhibits in Bucharest,
Prague,
Moscow, Berlin,
Warsaw,
Budapest,
Sofia,
Belgrade,
Athens,
Cairo,
Damascus, and
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Still Life (1922) File:Nude with Veil Maxy.jpg|
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