Max Pechstein, Kleine Dampfer/Small Steamers, 1911, Color Woodcut, Signed, German Expressionist

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Hermann Max Pechstein
Zwickau 1881 - 1955 Berlin
Kleine Dampfer 1911 / Small Steamboats, 1911
Colour woodcut on yellow-greenish clay … Read more Hermann Max Pechstein
Zwickau 1881 - 1955 Berlin
Kleine Dampfer 1911 / Small Steamboats, 1911
Colour woodcut on yellow-greenish clay printing plate on vellum
Signed and dated in pencil lower right
Numbered "III" lower left
Image size: 18.5 x 24.5 cm
Sheet size: 47 x 59 cm
Frame: 54 x 65 cm
Catalogue raisonné Krüger H 108

Provenance Auction Karl und Faber , Munich 1966, Privat collection Munich

One of only a few copies with the coloured clay printing plate as a background.
For Gurlitt, 20 copies were printed on Japanese paper and 8 hand-coloured copies on handmade paper.
Good condition (see photos)

Authenticity will be confirmed in writing.

Max Pechstein's artistic talent was recognised and encouraged at an early age. His conventional career path, first as an apprentice to a master painter in Zwickau, then at the Dresden School of Arts and Crafts and finally at the local academy under the decorative painter Otto Gußmann, helped Pechstein to acquire solid technical skills. When, in 1906, he painted a ceiling mural for the Dresden Arts and Crafts Exhibition in such unconventional colours that the client had it toned down with grey splashes, Erich Heckel became aware of Pechstein and eventually brought him into the artists' association ' Die Brücke', which had set itself the goal of creating a style of painting that was opposed to Impressionism and drew on the power of colour, and which "wanted to attract all revolutionary and fermenting forces" (Schmidt-Rottluff). In the environment of the 'Brücke' members, Pechstein's expressionist style continued to develop, his goal being to bring out the core motif with the judicious use of painterly means. In 1908, Pechstein settled in Berlin, where he became a co-founder of the New Secession. He created figure paintings, still lifes and landscapes in a moderate Expressionist style, which led to the artist's early and long-lasting success. In 1937, he was defamed as a 'degenerate artist'. from 1945 onwards, Pechstein taught at the Berlin Academy of Arts. In addition to painting, he produced more than 850 woodcuts, lithographs and etchings in the field of graphic art. This piece has an attribution mark,
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