Hermann Max Pechstein

184 - Hermann Max Pechstein

Waldweg. 1927. Oil on canvas. Lower right signed and dated "HMPechstein 1927". Inscribed on the reverse "HMPechstein Berlin W. 62 Kurfürstenstr 26 - Waldweg -". Framed. der Rückseite bezeichnet und betitelt "HMPechstein Berlin W. 62 Kurfürstenstr. 26 - 52 x 62 cm Galerie Schlichtenmaier, Grafenau, Stuttgart Seit 1996 in Privatbesitz Ausstellung: Provenance: Until 1990 part of a Private Collection, Stuttgart 1993-96 Gallery Schlichtenmaier, Grafenau, Stuttgart Since 1996 Private Property Mitbegründern dieser Stilrichtung gehört, so könnte man sagen, daß er in solchen Exhibition: Berlin 1930 a, No. 472 Dätzingen 1994, p. 27 Sein malerisches Werk, München 1996, S. 60f.) "1923 wird Pechstein zum Mitglied der Publication: The painting will be incorporated into the Catalogue Raisonné of Dr. Aya Soika which is in the making. The Catalogue Raisonné ID number is 1927/13. (Publication date October 2011) ich mir jetzt in Berlin ein neues Heim und errang mir außer vielen Freunden auch die About the artist: "German painter and printmaker. He was apprenticed as a decorator in Zwickau from 1896 to 1900, when he moved to Dresden to enrol at the Kunstgewerbeschule, where he met the architect Wilhelm Kreis and the painter Otto Gussmann (1869-1926) and obtained decorative commissions. He continued his studies from 1902 until 1906 as Gussmann's pupil at the Dresden Kunstakademie. Through Kreis, Pechstein was introduced to Erich Heckel in 1906 and was invited by him to join Die Brücke, a group founded in the previous year that was quickly to become a major force in the rise of German Expressionism. The founders of the group were all architecture students, leaving Pechstein as the only member to have received formal academic training as a painter. He remained closely involved with the group until 1910, drawing and painting in the studios of Heckel and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner in Dresden and also working communally with them en plein-air; together with Heckel and Kirchner, for example, he spent some weeks during summer 1910 painting naked bathers at the Moritzburg lakes near Dresden. Paintings produced by Pechstein at this time, such as Girl in Red at a Table (1910; Essen, Mus. Flkwang), are very close in style to work by other Brücke artists and are among the most important paintings of the group's communal period. [...] Pechstein was expelled from Die Brücke in 1912 for having exhibited some of his work at the Berlin Secession without their consent, but by this time his association with the group had already led him to a very flat style of painting in pure, unmixed colours, as in Nude in Tent (1911; Munich, Staatsgal. Mod. Kst). He never broke as radically with tradition as Kirchner, Heckel and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, but it may have been his relatively conservative stance that brought him success before any of the other Brücke painters. An influential critic at that time, Paul Fechter, wrote in Der Expressionismus (Munich, 1914) that Pechstein was 'the purest example and the strongest representative of the extensive Expressionist movement' and also the 'leader of the Dresden group'. The first monograph on Pechstein's work appeared in 1916, followed shortly afterwards by other books. He was commissioned to decorate private houses and to design stained-glass windows, and in the 1920s he was held by several German critics to be the group's major talent, the 'Giotto of our time' (Heymann, p. 71). A resentment against the prominence thus accorded to him may well have contributed to Pechstein's estrangement from the other members of Die Brücke. period. [...] Pechstein was expelled from Die Brücke in 1912 for having exhibited some of Like his colleagues in Die Brücke, Pechstein had developed an interest in 'primitive' art and had made drawings of Oceanic sculptures in the Völkerkundemuseum in Berlin. Following Paul Gauguin's example, in 1914 Pechstein travelled to Palau in the South Seas in search of further inspiration, but on the outbreak of World War I he was interned in Japan, finding his way back to Germany only to be sent to the Western Front in 1916. Pechstein became actively involved in two politically radical groups of artists formed in the wake of the German revolt of November 1918, the Arbeitsrat für kunst and the Novembergruppe, using the groups as a base for revolutionary and socialist initiatives, although little change in style or subject-matter can be seen in works of the period such as Landscape with Cows (1919; Essen, Mus. Flkwang), one of his typically stark and dynamic woodcuts. stained-glass windows, and in the 1920s he was held by several German critics to be the In 1922 Pechstein became a member of the Preussische Akademie der Künste and a professor at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Berlin; four years later he was commissioned by the German government to design a five-part stained-glass window for the Internationales Arbeitsamt in Geneva. As a politically committed artist, however, he soon became a victim of the repressive measures of the Nazis: in 1933 he was forbidden to paint or exhibit and removed from his teaching post, and in 1934 he was expelled from the Preussische Akademie der Künste. His reputation in Germany was quickly rehabilitated at the end of World War II; he was appointed professor at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in West Berlin in 1945 and was awarded many honours in the decade preceding his death. In retrospect, however, his artistic contribution has been overshadowed by that of Kirchner, Heckel and Schmidt-Rottluff, who continued to be regarded as the leading members of Die Brücke." in works of the period such as Landscape with Cows (1919; Essen, Mus. Flkwang), one of his Source: Oxford University Press

Zwickau 1881 - 1955 Berlin

Catalogueprice: 80.000 - 100.000 €

Result: 120.000,00 EUR

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