Max Pechstein

"When we met in Berlin , I arranged with Heckel and Kirchner that the three of us would go and work together on the lakes of Moritzburg near Dresden. We had long been familiar with the region, and we k…"

"..the unrelenting Berlin forced each one of us to struggle through on the most individual paths, so that our communal living fell apart. In addition, the knowledge of the individual members had develo…"

"I was commissioned to do a ceiling-painting and an altar painting for the Saxon pavilion at the third German Arts and Crafts exhibition.. .I varied my tulips. But when I went in before the opening I w…"

"In 1907 I was most strongly influenced by Giotto during my first Italian trip, as well as by Etruscan sculpture and the early Etruscan landscape painting in the Vatican library in Rome."

"We were overjoyed to discover our complete unison in the urge for liberation, for an art surging forward, unrestricted by convention."

"Max Pechstein at Artcyclopedia"

"We desire to achieve to the socialist republic not only the recovery of the conditions of art, but also the beginning of a unified artistic area for our time."

"It was and still is fundamental: to begin the work with the same tools with which it will be ended, without making a preliminary drawing. on the wood, stone, or metal. Sketches and drawings done in ad…"