Psychedelic pop artist Peter Max has died at the age of 88, friend and spokesperson Michael Pagnotta confirmed to Rolling Stone. Max died on Monday, September 14.
Pagnotta said that he died at a Manhattan hospital after a long battle with Alzheimer’s disease While Max’s official cause of death has not been revealed. “He had a very expansive mind. “Whatever kind of post-war optimism existed in the country, even though it was very turbulent times, Peter was able to capture that and marry it to that sort of spiritual eastern magical mystery thing, and it worked perfectly. And he believed in the mass appeal of what he was doing. He believed in making art accessible to people. He added that Max is survived by his children, Adam and Libra, who “loved him very much. The German-American artist’s psychedelic posters and rainbow-hued portraits of everyone from Bob Dylan and Ringo Starr to Barack Obama and Taylor Swift made him an icon.
As much as the Beatles provided a soundtrack for that era and for that generation, Peter visualized it, and he just exploded onto the scene in the late 1960s,” Pagnotta said.
