Peasant Girls (Moravia) by Max Pollak

Peasant Girls (Moravia) by Max Pollak

Peasant Girls (Moravia)

Max Pollak

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Title

Peasant Girls (Moravia)

 
Artist

Max Pollak

  1886 - 1970 (biography)
Year
c. 1925  
Technique
etching and color aquatint 
Image Size
14 5/16 x 11 7/8" platemark 
Signature
pencil, lower right 
Edition Size
Proof, edition not stated, presumed under 10 impressions. 
Annotations
pencil titled, lower left; pencil titled again in lower left sheet edge; red Friedl Pollak Collection stamp in lower left sheet corner; stamped "Made in Austria" on verso 
Reference
 
Paper
cream Van Gelder Zonen watermarked laid 
State
published 
Publisher
artist 
Inventory ID
22596 
Price
$475.00 
Description

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

This early color intaglio depicts three Southern Moravian peasant girls, dressed in traditional local costume, gathered at the water. Their dresses are billowing, covered with a long apron, and they wear scarves. In the background is a thick wall with a door that probably leads to the village.

Moravia was part of Bohemia and then incorporated into Czechoslavakia in 1918 and then the Czech Republic in 1949. It was included as the Czech Socialist Republic when it was administratively created in 1968 within federal Czechoslovakia and remained part of the Czech Republic when the latter became an independent nation in 1993.

Many of Pollak's European prints were confiscated by the Nazis, who considered them "decadent" because he was Jewish. There were only proof impressions printed from this plate.

 

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