Evening
1919
Medium
woodcut in black on wove paper
Dimensions
image: 31.8 x 39.8 cm (12 1/2 x 15 11/16 in.) sheet: 50.5 x 61.5 cm (19 7/8 x 24 3/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Print Purchase Fund (Rosenwald Collection)
Accession Number
1976.61.1
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Max Pechstein · 1881–1955
Hermann Max Pechstein (1881–1955) was born in Zwickau, Germany, the son of a craftsman in the textile industry. He trained as a decorative painter in his home city before enrolling at the School of Applied Arts in Dresden and then transferring to the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, where he studied under the painter Otto Gussmann. His early exposure to the work of Vincent van Gogh proved decisive in d...