Bridge on the River Isonzo (Italy)

 

Max Pollak

  1886 - 1970 (biography)

1917  

etching, printed in green/black ink 

8 5/8 x 10 1/8" platemark 

pencil, lower right 

annotated "Edit. 4" 

pencil titled and editioned lower margin; red Friedl Pollak Collection stamp in lower left sheet corner, recto.; pencil annotated "printed a 10". Stamped "Made in Austria" on verso. 

 

buff wove paper 

proof 

artist 

22678 

Price On Request 

This appears to be a railway bridge over the Isonzo (now Soca) River--which runs through Italy and present-day Slovenia--which was destroyed in one of the twelve Battles of the Isonzo that took place between 1915 and 1917 during World War I. Pollak was an appointed painter for the Austrian Army at the time and created several images depicting the fallout of war.