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Max Pechstein
The Amputee1917-1919, published 1920

Not on view
Print on cream paper, small black-ink image of a figure bent over a long-handled farming tool in a field, with a bold sun, trees, and a house rendered in thick woodcut-style lines
Artist or Maker
Max Pechstein
Germany, 1881-1955
Publisher
Fritz Gurlitt Verlag
Germany, Berlin
Title
The Amputee
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1917-1919, published 1920
Medium
Etching and drypoint
Dimensions
Plate: 15 9/16 x 12 1/2 in. (39.53 x 31.75 cm); Sheet: 19 11/16 x 15 3/8 in. (50.01 x 39.05 cm)
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
AC1992.238.19.9
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.

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