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Max Pechstein
Hand-to-Hand Combat1917-1919, published 1920

Not on view
Lithograph in bold black ink showing two large figures in violent motion, one with raised fist, the other recoiling, with smaller falling figures and diagonal lines suggesting an explosion

Max Pechstein, Fritz Gurlitt Verlag, Hand-to-Hand Combat, 1917-1919, published 1920, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 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, photo © Museum Associates / LACMA

Artist or Maker
Max Pechstein
Germany, 1881-1955
Publisher
Fritz Gurlitt Verlag
Germany, Berlin
Title
Hand-to-Hand Combat
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1917-1919, published 1920
Medium
Etching and drypoint
Dimensions
Plate: 15 1/2 x 12 1/2 in. (39.37 x 31.75 cm); Sheet: 19 3/8 x 15 1/2 in. (49.21 x 39.37 cm) irregular
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
AC1992.238.19.3
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.

  • Barron, Stephanie et al., German Expressionism 1915-1925: The Second Generation. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1988.

Copyright
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / Pechstein Hamburg / Toekendorf / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn