Weib vom Manne begehrt (Woman Desired by Man) from Deutsche Graphiker der Gegenwart (German Printmakers of Our Time)
1919, published 1920
Medium
woodcut on wove paper from a bound volume with 16 lithographs (including cover), eight woodcuts, and eight photomechanical reproductions
Dimensions
book: 33 × 25 × 1.3 cm (13 × 9 13/16 × 1/2 in.)
Classification
Volume
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Ingrid Rose in memory of her husband Milton Rose
Accession Number
2014.7.3.15
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...