LACMA

ShopMembershipMyLACMATickets
LACMA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
5905 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90036
info@lacma.org
(323) 857-6000
Sign up to receive emails
Subscribe
© Museum Associates 2026
  • About LACMA
  • Jobs
  • Building LACMA
  • Host An Event
  • Unframed
  • Press
  • FAQs
  • Log in to MyLACMA
  • Privacy Policy
© Museum Associates 2026
Collections

Max Pechstein
On Post1917-1919, published 1920

Not on view
Print in black ink and gray wash, three angular figures in a wartime landscape: two lightly clothed figures on the ground and a helmeted soldier standing with a bayoneted rifle, dated 1918

Max Pechstein, Fritz Gurlitt Verlag, On Post, 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
On Post
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1917-1919, published 1920
Medium
Etching and drypoint
Dimensions
Plate: 15 5/8 x 12 1/2 in. (39.69 x 31.75 cm); Sheet: 19 9/16 x 15 1/2 in. (49.69 x 39.37 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
AC1992.238.19.2
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.

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

  • Krüger, Günter. Das Druckgraphische werk Max Pechsteins. Tökendorf: R.C. Pechstein, 1988.
  • Fechter, Paul. Das graphische Werk Max Pechsteins. Berlin, Fritz Gurlitt, c. 1921.
Copyright
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / Pechstein Hamburg / Toekendorf / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn