Picture "The Cloud, Chiemsee" (1947), black and silver-coloured framed version
Picture "The Cloud, Chiemsee" (1947), black and silver-coloured framed version
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ars mundi Exclusive Edition | limited, 199 copies | numbered certificate | reproduction, Giclée print on handmade paper | framed | passe-partout | glazed | size 49 x 59 cm (h/w)
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Picture "The Cloud, Chiemsee" (1947), black and silver-coloured framed version
Max Pechstein is considered among the most significant German artists. After the end of the Second World War, he became a professor at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Berlin and experienced numerous exhibitions and honours in his last decade of life both domestically and internationally. His life was eventful, yet marked by constants, such as his artistically extremely productive travels, particularly to the Baltic Sea, where many of his best-known works were created.
Another constant in Pechstein's work is the motif of the sun, which played a central role throughout his life. This is evident in his late work, where, as seen here at Lake Chiemsee, it bathes a cloud in rich colours.
Original: 1947, watercolour on paper, 50 x 65 cm, privately owned.
High-quality edition in Fine Art Giclée print on handmade paper by Hahnemühle. Limited edition of 199 copies, with numbered certificate. Framed in a black and silver-coloured solid wood frame with passe-partout, glazed. Size 49 x 59 cm (h/w). ars mundi Exclusive Edition. © 2024 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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Artistic movement that replaced Impressionism in the early 20th century.
Expressionism is the German form of the art revolution in painting, graphic art and sculpture, which found its precursor in the works of Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin in the late 19th century. The Expressionists attempted to advance to the primal elements of painting. With vibrant, unbroken colours in large areas and with the emphasis on the line and the resulting targeted suggestive expressiveness, they fought against the artistic taste established by the bourgeoisie.
The most important representatives of Expressionism were the founders of "Die Brücke" (The Bridge): Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Erich Heckel, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Max Pechstein, Otto Mueller and Franz Marc, August Macke and others.
Masters of Viennese Expressionism are Egon Schiele and Oskar Kokoschka. Among the sculptors, Ernst Barlach is the most famous.
Fauvism is the French form of Expressionism.
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.