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 2025

Museum Hours

Monday

11 am–6 pm

Tuesday

11 am–6 pm

Wednesday

Closed

Thursday

11 am–6 pm

Friday

11 am–8 pm

Saturday

10 am–7 pm

Sunday

10 am–7 pm

 

  • About LACMA
  • Jobs
  • Building LACMA
  • Host An Event
  • Unframed
  • Press
  • FAQs
  • Log in to MyLACMA
  • Privacy Policy
© Museum Associates 2025
Collections

Max Pechstein
Marsyas, 2 (September-October 1917) (Deluxe edition)1917

Not on view
Print with loose black ink lines on cream paper depicting an ornate rococo interior with two central figures and costumed figures below a decorative molding band
Intaglio print with energetic hatched lines depicting multiple nude figures in dynamic poses, one upright and leaning forward in the upper half, two reclining figures below, rendered in loose gestural strokes on a pale ground.
Intaglio print with energetic black marks on white paper; diagonal slashes and curved lines suggest figures and foliage in a semi-abstract landscape composition, with angular geometric forms in the upper portion.
Etching of two women in elaborate 18th-century ball gowns and feathered headdresses, facing each other in an ornate interior, rendered in loose, energetic line work with decorative architectural elements in the background.
Ink drawing on white paper depicting multiple nude figures in dynamic, overlapping poses, rendered with rapid hatching and gestural line work arranged diagonally across the composition.
Etching with two stacked vignettes: above, a figure seated at a long table in a shadowy attic room lit by a single candle, rendered in dense cross-hatching; below, a lightly sketched woman in a full-skirted gown standing in an elegant paneled interior.
Ink drawing of four figures in an interior: a standing nude holding a large sheet, a clothed standing figure, a seated figure in a chair, and a clothed figure at left near a piece of furniture, rendered with energetic hatched linework. Monogrammed and signed lower right, dated 1917.
Artist or Maker
Max Pechstein
Artist or Maker
Georg Tappert
Artist or Maker
Edwin Scharff
Artist or Maker
Hans Meid
Title
Marsyas, 2 (September-October 1917) (Deluxe edition)
Place Made
Germany, Berlin
Date Made
1917
Medium
Printed material with seventen etchings, eight lithographs, and eleven drypoints on Japan paper
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, purchased with funds provided by Anna Bing Arnold, Museum Associates Acquisition Fund, and deaccession funds
Accession Number
83.1.1662a-jj
Classification
Periodicals
Collecting Area
Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Selected Bibliography
  • Reed, Orrel P., German expressionist art: the Robert Gore Rifkind Collection: prints, drawings, illustrated books, periodicals, posters. Exhibition Catalogue. Los Angeles: Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, 1977.

  • 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.