The Late Great Peter Max

Psychedelic artist Peter Max died at the age of 88 on September 14, 2026, at the age of 88. In 2021, he had been diagnosed with advanced dementia.Peter Max was born Peter Max Finkelstein on October 19, 1937, in Berlin. His family fled Nazi Germany for Shanghai when he was still a baby. They lived there for ten years. They spent some time in Tibet before migrating to Haifa, Israel, where they lived for many years. They spent a few months in Paris before settling in New York City. Peter Max was 16 at the time. He attended Lafayette High School in Brooklyn where among his classmates were actor Paul Sorvino and baseball legend Sandy Koufax. He studied art at at the Art Students League, the School of Visual Arts, and Pratt Institute. It was in 1962 that Peter Max opened an art studio in New York City called "The Daly & Max Studio" with Tom Daly. It was not long before Peter Max saw a good deal of success. He designed the flyers for the second "Be In," a political gathering in Central Park…