Max Herman Maxy was one of the exceptional figures of the art of the 20th century in Romania , his life as an artist taking place in two distinct eras, equal in duration: in monarchical Romania from 1923, that of the return from his studies in Berlin until the year 1947 and the one that followed with the establishment of the communist regime in that year and until his death in 1971.
In both periods he was a leading figure, either as one of the leaders of the avant-garde artistic movement of the interwar period, or as the director who led the establishment and operation of Romania's most important art museum during the communist period (the current MNAR).
 
This exhibition presents the artist's work in these two distinct sections, following the chronological thread of his biography and brings together 95 paintings, 50 graphic works and scenography projects, objects of applied art, a selection from the avant-garde magazines Integral, Contimporanul, one, period.