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Max Pechstein
Head of a fisherman1922

Not on view
Expressionist woodcut portrait of a bearded man's face in bold black and white, with angular gouged lines and simplified features filling the entire composition

Max Pechstein, Head of a fisherman, 1922, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, photo © Museum Associates / LACMA

Artist or Maker
Max Pechstein
Title
Head of a fisherman
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1922
Medium
Woodcut on wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 15 3/4 x 11 11/16 in. (40.01 x 29.69 cm); Sheet: 16 1/4 x 11 7/8 in. (41.28 x 30.16 cm)
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Accession Number
M.82.288.249
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.
Copyright
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / Pechstein Hamburg / Toekendorf / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn