Max Pechstein
Und die Kraft und die Herrlichkeit
Linocut
19 x 13 inches
Undated
Museum Number 60-095
(c) UM Museum of Fine Arts file photograph
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Linocut
19 x 13 inches
Undated
Museum Number 60-095
(c) UM Museum of Fine Arts file photograph
Max Hermann Pechstein was born in Eckersbach, Zwickau 31 December 1881 and died in West Berlin on 19 June 1955. He was a painter and printmaker who worked as a decorator from 1896 to 1900. In 1906 he was invited to join DIE BRÜCKE which was to become a major influence in the rise of German Expressionism.
In 1907 Pechstein won the Dresden Kunstakacademie's Rome prize and on his return stayed in Paris and making contact with Fauvist painters, some of whom joined DIE BRÜCKE at his invitation. He served on the Western Front during WWI in 1916 and in 1918 became a member of the 'Novembergruppe.' He was a politically commited artist who was persecuted by the Nazis and was stripped of his academic rank at the Hochschule fur Bildende Künste in Berlin.