Picture "Spring Blossom" (c. 1919), white and golden framed version
Picture "Spring Blossom" (c. 1919), white 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 51 x 57 cm (h/w)
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Picture "Spring Blossom" (c. 1919), white and golden framed version
The work by Max Pechstein shows the apple trees characteristic of the Alte Land, whose blossom covers the region with a pink-white veil every spring. "Spring Blossom" itself was painted in Ratzeburg in Schleswig-Holstein in May 1919.
Original: c. 1919, oil on canvas, 71 x 80 cm, privately owned.
Edition transferred directly onto artist's canvas using the Fine Art Giclée process and stretched on a stretcher frame. Limited edition of 199 copies, numbered, with certificate. Stretcher frame size approx. 43 x 49 cm (h/w). Framed in a white-golden solid wood frame. Size 51 x 57 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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Giclée = derived from the French verb gicler "to squirt, spurt".
The giclée method is a digital printing process. It is a high-resolution, large-format printout on an inkjet printer with special different-coloured dye- or pigment-based inks (usually six to twelve). The colours are fade-proof, i.e. resistant to harmful UV light. They have a high richness of nuance, contrast and saturation.
The giclée process is suitable for art canvases, handmade and watercolour paper as well as for silk.