Heischer
1917
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View on museum website →Medium
woodcut in black on wove paper
Dimensions
image: 24.45 × 20.16 cm (9 5/8 × 7 15/16 in.) sheet: 47.5 × 36.5 cm (18 11/16 × 14 3/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen
Accession Number
2006.57.24
About the Artist
Max Pechstein
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...