Woman Standing by a Door
Max Pechstein
1908
Medium
etching in black on laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 29.3 x 24.6 cm (11 9/16 x 9 11/16 in.) sheet: 37.5 x 34.4 cm (14 3/4 x 13 9/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1951.10.376
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...