Max Klein

Max Klein (27 January 1847, Gönc – 6 September 1908, Berlin) was a German sculptor and medallist, of Jewish ancestry.

After finishing primary school, he learned watchmaking, then went to Pest, where he was employed in the sculpture workshop of Ferenc Szandház (1827–1902), and his brother Károly (1824–1892).

His debut came at an Academy exhibition in 1877, but received little public recognition until 1879, when he displayed a dramatic bronze group, Hercules and the Nemean Lion.

[2] In 1881, he was awarded a major commission to create figures of Plato and Aristotle, for the Joachimsthalsches Gymnasium, a school that was founded in the 17th century.

He was a regular exhibitor at the Große Berliner Kunstausstellung; notably in 1900, when he presented a large statue of Samson, bound and blinded.