Max Schoendorff identified himself with Lyon, the city where his beautiful and singular artistic career took place. Painter renowned for his superb series ofBack self-portraits (1998) he leaves a work in his own image, humanist and rebellious.
He who wanted to «make poetry or philosophy with shapes and colors» was also a theatre and cinema decorator who worked for Jacques Rosner, Jean-Marie Straub or João César Monteiro in films like «From Overnight» or “Philosophy in the Boudoir”.
He was one of those artists who were active in cultural action: an ardent defender of decentralization alongside his friend Roger Planchon, and also the creator of URDLA, the international centre for prints and books, in Villeurbanne.