Max Pechstein
Hermann Max Pechstein was a German expressionist painter and printmaker and a member of the Die Brücke group. He fought on the Western Front during World War I and his art was classified as Degenerate Art by the Nazis. More than 300 paintings were removed from German Museums during the Nazi era.
Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- Zwickau
- Awards
- 🏆 Berliner Kunstpreis🏆 Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
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"..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 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."
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Timeline
1881
Born
Birth1955
Died
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