Anti-aircraft, June

 

Max Pollak

  1886 - 1970 (biography)

c. 1917  

drypoint 

4 7/16 x 7 13/16" platemark 

pencil, lower right 

not stated 

pencil titled along lower left sheet edge; red "FPC" Friedl Pollak Collection stamped above title; stamped "Made in Austria" on verso 

 

thin cream wove 

published 

artist 

22707 

SOLD

This image of a line of soldiers with anti-aircraft cannons was created during Pollak's stint as an artist for the Austrian army. He would sketch on the battlefield, and create etchings of them once he returned to Austria.