Holland: The Visit (Der Besuch) by Max Pollak

Holland: The Visit (Der Besuch) by Max Pollak

Holland: The Visit (Der Besuch)

Max Pollak

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Title

Holland: The Visit (Der Besuch)

 
Artist

Max Pollak

  1886 - 1970 (biography)
Year
c. 1915  
Technique
drypoint and etching 
Image Size
10 1/2 x 9 7/8" platemark 
Signature
pencil, lower right 
Edition Size
not stated; presumed small 
Annotations
pencil titled, lower left; titled "Visit" in lower left corner of sheet; red Friedl Pollak Collection stamp in lowerleft sheet corner 
Reference
 
Paper
heavy buff wove 
State
published 
Publisher
artist 
Inventory ID
22639 
Price
$400.00 
Description

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.

While traveling in Europe Pollak had the opportunity to study the works of the old masters firsthand, including Rembrandt, to whom he pays tribute with this dark interior scene that uses only the ambient light from the window to illuminate the composition. The elements within the room emerge slowly out of the dark.

Three women gather around a kitchen table, a visit between old friends perhaps as a young woman stands by. She and the woman at the table wear costumes from the region of Volendam in Northern Holland near Amsterdam.

 

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