Modling by Max Pollak

Modling by Max Pollak

Modling

Max Pollak

Title

Modling

 
Artist

Max Pollak

  1886 - 1970 (biography)
Year
c. 1930  
Technique
color aquatint with drypoint 
Image Size
17 1/8 x 15 1/8" platemark 
Signature
pencil, lower right 
Edition Size
10/100 (only around 10 impressions printed) 
Annotations
pencil titled and editioned; secondary titling, signature, and editioning directly beneath originals, with the annotation "printed a. 10" along bottom sheet edge; stamed "Made in Austria" on verso 
Reference
 
Paper
cream laid 
State
published 
Publisher
artist 
Inventory ID
22833 
Price
SOLD
Description

Pollak depicts the Mödling city center in winter, with the aqueduct of First Vienna Mountain Spring Pipeline (constucted in 1873) and the top of St. Othmar church, built in the mid 15th century. The viewer is located on a hill, peering under a tree branch at the city below.

Mödling lies in Lower Austria's industrial zone. The Mödlingbach, a brook which rises in the Vienna Woods, flows through the town. Near Achau it joins with the Schwechat. Woodland occupies a large part of the municipality, part of the Föhrenberge ('Pine Mountains').

From 1883 to 1932, Mödling was the starting point of the Mödling and Hinterbrühl Tram, Austria's first electric railway and world's first long-lasting tram with overhead lines. In 1938, after the Anschluss with Nazi Germany, Mödling was incorporated into the newly formed 24th District of Vienna. In 1954, it became once again a part of Lower Austria.