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Dancers: Lo Hesse by Max Pollak
Dancers: Lo Hesse
Max Pollak
Title
Dancers: Lo Hesse
Artist
Max Pollak
1886 - 1970 (biography)Year
c. 1925
Technique
drypoint with color aquatint
Image Size
14 1/8 x 6 1/16" platemark
Signature
pencil, lower right
Edition Size
not stated
Annotations
pencil titled in lower left; red "FPC" Friedl Pollak Collection stamp in lower left sheet corner
Reference
"Lotte Hesse" listed in artist's estate checklist
Paper
ivory simile-vellum wove
State
published
Publisher
artist
Inventory ID
23003
Price
$375.00
Description
Lo Hesse (1889 - 1983) was a German dancer, model, and muse of Avant Garde designer Walter Schnackenberg in Berlin and Munich in the 1910s. She was known for her extravagantly costumed performances with famed dancer Joachim von Seewitz. Hesse was often the subject of sculptor and porcelain ceramicist Constantin Solzer-Defanti, who created several figurines of the fashioniable chanteuse. In 1919 Hesse was offered a position with the Vienna State Opera, which she turned down in order to go on tour in South America.