Italian War Prisoners by Max Pollak

Italian War Prisoners by Max Pollak

Italian War Prisoners

Max Pollak

Title

Italian War Prisoners

 
Artist

Max Pollak

  1886 - 1970 (biography)
Year
1917  
Technique
drypoint 
Image Size
7 3/8 x 10 3/4" platemark 
Signature
pencil, lower right 
Edition Size
12 
Annotations
bears the red FPC collector's stamp in the lower left; from the collection of Friedl Pollak; inscribed "printed a. 12" in lower left corner of the paper 
Reference
Triton Museum of Art, Max Pollak in Retrospect, cat. no. 18 
Paper
heavy cream wove paper 
State
published 
Publisher
artist 
Inventory ID
22569 
Price
SOLD
Description
In the catalog published by the Triton Museum for the 1973 retrospective, Max Pollak in Retrospect, the catalogue entry for this work contains this information: During World War I, Pollak was a war painter for the Austrian army. He was ordered to paint propaganda war pictures. "But I didn't," he explained. "I painted the horrors of war--the ruined cities, the wounded women and children." Unfortunately, this infuriated his surperior officers, and he was sent to the front as punishment.