Bringing the knowledge of Parisian avant-garde, including its dynamism, abstraction and emotion, to the burgeoning circle of American modernists, the Russian-born American painter, printmaker and sculptor, Max Weber, is famous for introducing European art movements as Fauvism and Cubism to the United States.

Celebrated as one of the first American Cubist painters, Weber was born on April 18, 1881, in the Polish city of Bialystok, then part of the Russian Empire.