4112 - Max Pechstein, “Peasant Christ”

Max Pechstein, “Peasant Christ” Jesus on the cross against a backdrop of summer flowers, offset print based on a work by Max Pechstein, inscribed in lead in the lower left-hand corner, dated and signed “For Joles 28 November (19)47 HMPechstein", slight signs of wear, framed with a passe-partout and behind glass, passe-partout dimensions approx. 38.5 x 29 cm. Artist information: born Hermann Max Pechstein, German painter, graphic artist, sculptor and craftsman (1881, Zwickau - 1955, Berlin), 1896-1900: apprenticeship as a decorative painter in Zwickau, followed by studies at the State School of Applied Arts and, from 1902, as a master student of Otto Gussmann; from 1903, further training at the Academy in Dresden, In 1906, he met Erich Heckel and Ernst-Ludwig Kirchner; from then on, he was a member of the ‘Brücke’ artists’ association; in 1907, he spent time in Italy on a Saxon State Prize scholarship and was in Paris in 1907-08; from 1908, he lived in Berlin, in 1908, he became a member of the Berlin ‘Secession’ and in 1910 a member of the ‘Neue Secession’, which led to his expulsion from the ‘Brücke’ in 1912, from 1909, regular stays in Nidden (East Prussia) and in Italy; undertook numerous study trips, including to the Palau Islands and the south of France, in 1918, co-founder of the ‘November Group’; from 1923, professor and member of the Prussian Academy of Arts; in 1933, dismissed as ‘degenerate’ and banned from painting, expelled from the Academy in 1937; in 1944, lost a large part of his life’s work due to the ravages of war; in 1945, once again appointed professor at the Berlin University of the Arts (HBK), Source: Thieme-Becker, Vollmer, Dressler, Wikipedia, lists of students at the Dresden Academy, records of the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts in Berlin and the internet.