Place in Tabor (Tcheco-Slovakia)

 

Max Pollak

  1886 - 1970 (biography)

c. 1932  

color aquatint, printe a la poupée with drypoint. 

12 3/4 x 10 1/4" platemark 

pencil, lower right 

only print 

pencil titled and editioned; red Friedl Pollak Collection stamp in lower left sheet corner; pencil annotated "only print" twice along bottom sheet edge 

 

cream similie-vellum wove 

published 

artist 

22841 

$450.00 

Tabor is a Medieval city situated in the South Bohemian region of Czechoslavakia, best known for the years in which it flourished as an egalitarian peasant commune. The old part of town rests on granite ridge, flanked to the south and west by a resevoir, and the city's original fortifications still are still largely intact. It boasts extremely narrow streets and hidden tunnels dug by the residents in the 15th century to deter intruders. This impression is annotated "only print" twice by Pollak along the lower margin and was part of his widow's personal collection and has her red stamped F.P.C. (Friedl Pollak Collection) in the lower left corner. 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. In the 1930s many of Pollak's European paintings and prints were confiscated by the Nazis, who considered them "degenerate" because he was Jewish.