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Max Pechstein
Somme 19161920

Not on view
Print with bold black lines and gray wash, figures tangled around a coiling form beneath block lettering reading 'SOMME 1916'
Black and white print with bold, angular linework; an armed soldier in helmet stands at right holding a rifle, facing two wounded or fallen figures on a hillside, with smoke, explosions, and a village visible in the background landscape.
Black and white lithograph with bold, gestural linework depicting two standing figures in confrontation, one recoiling backward, with smaller fallen figures in the background and a starburst shape in the upper left corner.
Intaglio print with bold black lines depicting multiple figures in dynamic falling or collapsing poses, surrounded by radiating diagonal lines and a billowing cloud-like form at upper right; expressionist style with stark contrast and energetic hatching.
Black and white woodcut or lithograph with bold, angular lines; two figures in motion along railroad tracks, one in the foreground carrying a rifle, another behind; diagonal composition with smoke clouds and bare trees in background.
Black and white print with bold, expressive linework; a column of soldiers carrying rifles and packs marches in the foreground toward buildings and a radiating starburst explosion in the background, rendered in high-contrast black and gray tones.
Black and white print with bold woodcut-style linework depicting male laborers at a construction or logging site; foreground figures carry large planks while background figures swing axes, with diagonal lines suggesting dynamic movement and a sketched sky above.
Black and white print of a standing figure leaning on a long-handled tool in a field, with bold expressive linework; a radiating sun, trees, and a small house in the background.
Black and white print with bold, angular Expressionist linework depicting a chaotic cluster of soldiers and fallen figures in struggle, with a disembodied mask-like face at lower left and diagonal hatching suggesting movement; handwritten text reads "SOMME 1916" at top.
Artist or Maker
Max Pechstein
Germany, 1881-1955
Publisher
Fritz Gurlitt Verlag
Germany, Berlin
Title
Somme 1916
Place Made
Germany, Berlin
Date Made
1920
Medium
Nine intaglio prints on J. W. Zanders laid paper
Dimensions
See individual entries
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, purchased with funds provided by the Ducommun and Gross Acquisition Fund, and the Twentieth Century Art Acquisition Fund
Accession Number
AC1992.238.19.1-.10
Classification
Prints
Collecting Area
Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Selected Bibliography

  • Davis, Bruce. German Expressionist Prints and Drawings: The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies. Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1989; Munich, Germany: Prestel, 1989.

  • Fechter, Paul. Das graphische Werk Max Pechsteins. Berlin, Fritz Gurlitt, c. 1921.
  • Krüger, Günter. Das Druckgraphische werk Max Pechsteins. Tökendorf: R.C. Pechstein, 1988.