Wien: Nussdorfer Lande by Max Pollak
Wien: Nussdorfer Lande
Max Pollak
Title
Wien: Nussdorfer Lande
Artist
Max Pollak
1886 - 1970 (biography)Year
c. 1931
Technique
color aquatint with drypoint
Image Size
7 3/16 x 18 3/16" platemark
Signature
pencil, lower right
Edition Size
3/100 (printed only around 15 impressions)
Annotations
pencil titled and editioned; red Freidl Pollak collection stamp in lower left sheet corner; annotated "Printed a. 15" along lower center sheet edge
Reference
Paper
cream laid
State
published
Publisher
artist
Inventory ID
22845
Price
$400.00
Description
A soft, distantly observed winter scene in Nussdorf, Vienna that celebrates the everyday: a colorful village draped in snow acts the backdrop to a scene of children pulling a sled, observed from a distance by a dog waiting patiently for his owner to end her chat with a neighbor. Small fishing boats are tethered to the bank of the Nussbach River that meanders calmly past the edges of the village. Pollak's genius for capturing human activity with warmth and joy in such stark winter landscapes is on full display in "Wien: Nussdorfer Lande."
Nussdorf is a suburb of Vienna, first mentioned in a deed from the 12th century by the Klosterneuburg Monastery.