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Merry go round (Czechoslovakia); a.k.a. "Ringespiel" by Max Pollak

Merry go round (Czechoslovakia); a.k.a. Ringespiel by Max Pollak

Merry go round (Czechoslovakia); a.k.a. "Ringespiel"

Max Pollak

Title

Merry go round (Czechoslovakia); a.k.a. "Ringespiel"

 
Artist

Max Pollak

  1886 - 1970 (biography)
Year
1915  
Technique
drypoint and color aquatint 
Image Size
12 5/16 x 15 5/8" platemark 
Signature
pencil, lower right 
Edition Size
8 of 10  
Annotations
pencil titled, in lower left; also in lower left corner of the paper inscribed "printed a 12"; bears the red FPC collector's stamp in the lower left; from the collection of Friedl Pollak 
Reference
Triton Museum of Art, Max Pollak in Retrospect. cat. no. 15 
Paper
ivory simil vellum wove 
State
published 
Publisher
artist 
Inventory ID
22549 
Price
SOLD
Description

An early use of color intaglio by Czech-born printmaker Max Pollak, who went on to use the technique almost exclusively. "Merry go round (Tsheco-Slovakia)" adds color aquatint, printed a la poupée, to his large drypoint, done in 1915.

The artist focuses on a large black center on the merry-go-round, upon which are drawn a number of loose, sketchy figures which create a sensation of movement. In the foreground stand a number of waiting mothers and children, dressed in local attire.

Max Pollak was born in Czechoslavakia and raised in Vienna. A printmaker with a long, productive career his intaglios, which included genre, land and cityscapes, and portraits from throughout Europe, the United States and Latin America.