He and his wife, Rosa Hecht (American, born 1890), lived in New York, and together established the New Age Association.
An article in Nature Magazine is dedicated to the New Age project and establishes the year of school's beginning as 1924.
[2] Hecht was among the group of avant-garde artists living in New York in the first half of the twentieth century.
Art critic Walter Rendall Story took note of his New Age designs in an article for the New York Times.
[5] In 1981, a retrospective of Hecht's work was held at the Passaic County Community College in New Jersey.