Wien: Nussdorfer Lande

 

Max Pollak

  1886 - 1970 (biography)

c. 1931  

color aquatint with drypoint 

7 3/16 x 18 3/16" platemark 

pencil, lower right 

3/100 (printed only around 15 impressions) 

pencil titled and editioned; red Freidl Pollak collection stamp in lower left sheet corner; annotated "Printed a. 15" along lower center sheet edge 

 

cream laid 

published 

artist 

22845 

$400.00 

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.