Max Raphael

Background

He was born on August 27, 1889, in Schönlanke, Prussia, Germany.

Career

Foreign the pseudonymous American actor with the same name see Lloyd Sherr. He was of Jewish parentage. Between 1924 and 1932 he taught art history to the working class at the Volkhochschule in Berlin.

With the rise of the Nazis he moved to Paris, where he continued his writing.

After the Germans occupied Paris in 1940 he was temporarily interned at Gurs internment camp and Camp des Milles. He died by suicide in New York City on July 14, 1952.

Achievements

• In New York Raphael lived in penury until he received one of the first fellowships awarded by the Bollingen Foundation.