Max Pechstein:
Picture "Port of Leba" (c. 1922), black and golden framed version
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Picture "Port of Leba" (c. 1922), black and golden framed version
Max Pechstein:
Picture "Port of Leba" (c. 1922), black and golden framed version

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ars mundi Exclusive Edition | limited, 199 copies | numbered | certificate | reproduction, Giclée print on canvas | on stretcher frame | framed | size 58.5 x 72.5 cm (h/w)

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Picture "Port of Leba" (c. 1922), black and golden framed version

He was a member of the "Brücke" and the "Berliner Secession", co-founder and president of the "Neue Secession". From 1923 on, he was a member of the Prussian Academy of Arts and a professor. Max Pechstein's career path was unmistakable. But then he lost his professorial status in 1933, he was expelled from the Academy in 1937, his art was declared "degenerate art", he suffered economic misery, and many of his works were destroyed as a result of the Second World War. Only in his later years after 1945 did he receive renewed recognition.

Max Pechstein indeed led an eventful artistic life. But there was one constant, a safe haven if you will, in all this turmoil: For more than two decades, from 1921-1945, he managed to spend his summers painting in the German region Farther Pomerania. It was during these stays that he produced his most beautiful landscape works. He painted his "Port of Leba" during his second visit, which was to be followed by many more.
Original: c. 1922, oil on canvas, 80 x 100 cm, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, inv. no. B403.

Edition transferred directly onto artist's canvas using the Fine Art Giclée process and stretched onto a stretcher frame. Limited edition of 199 copies, numbered, with certificate. Stretcher frame size 52 x 66 cm (h/w). Framed in a black and golden solid wood frame. Size 58.5 x 72.5 cm (h/w). ars mundi Exclusive Edition. © 2022 Pechstein Hamburg / Berlin.

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About Max Pechstein

1881-1955

Max Pechstein is considered today, as he was then, one of the most important representatives of German Expressionism. In spring 1906, he joined the artists' group "Die Brücke", which had been founded the previous year by Kirchner, Heckel, Schmidt-Rottluff and Bleyl. In the field of graphic art, he produced an oeuvre of over 850 woodcuts, lithographs and etchings in addition to his paintings.

What Tahiti was to Paul Gauguin, the Baltic Sea coast was to Max Pechstein: a paradise where he found peace, but above all great inspiration. From 1909 onwards, he travelled several times to Nidden on the Curonian Spit, where Lovis Corinth had worked as a young art student more than a quarter of a century earlier. However, when the Treaty of Versailles placed the Curonian Spit under Allied administration in 1920, the way there was blocked. In his own words, Pechstein had to "once again go in search of a spot of earth that was not overrun by painters, tourists and bathers". He found it in Leba, where from then on he spent his summers on a regular basis.

"For more than twenty years Max Pechstein went to the Baltic coast every summer, first to the Curonian Spit, then to Pomerania, which naturally connected him closely to our house. When he rented a room here with his first wife in 1921, he had no idea how attached he would soon feel to the small harbour town of Leba, for he fell in love with Marta Möller, the daughter of his innkeeper. The pristine nature with its beach lakes and the fishing boats in the harbour, the pipe in his mouth, tanned and the anchor tattooed, those things stayed with the passionate angler Pechstein until the end of his life, even when he and his wife could no longer go to Pomerania after the Second World War." (Dr. Birte Frenssen, Deputy Director at the Pomeranian State Museum in Greifswald)

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