Wien: Schulhof

 

Max Pollak

  1886 - 1970 (biography)

c. 1915  

etching 

7 9/16 x 5 3/16" platemark (image smaller than platemark) 

pencil, lower right within platemark bounds 

not stated; presumed fewer than 20 impressions 

pencil titled lower left within platemark bounds; bears the red Friedl Pollak Collection stamp, lower left sheet corner 

 

light ivory Van Gelder Zonen laid with crest watermark 

published 

artist 

23985 

$375.00 

A street view in Old Town, Vienna, Austria. Here, Schulhof (translating to Schoolyard and perhaps relating to the small plaza connected to it) street becomes Seitzgasse alleyway, the junction of which is flanked by the Palais Obizzi (left) and the rear of Kirche Am Hof (Church at the Court, also known as Kirche zu den neuen Chören der Engel, or Church of the Nine Choir Angels). Relatively little has changed about this scene, and the Palais Obizzi still serves as a clock and watch museum as it did in the 1910s.