Word: pechstein
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Young Max Pechstein was one of the leaders in Germany's expressionist movement before World War I. His canvases, which sometimes reminded critics of a lesser Gauguin, were daring in their day, made Pechstein a reputation. But when Hitler came in, Pechstein's "decadent" work went out. He painted on the sly in Berlin, finally went off to live on the Baltic coast...
...highest degree of personal, emotional expression, deliberately set out to step up the passionate style of Vincent van Gogh. Munch's first one-man Berlin exhibition, in 1892, contained 55 screechingly colored, cacophonously designed canvases. Munch's best-known Expressionist contemporaries were Emil Nolde, Max Pechstein and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff...
...Canyons" is a very capable piece of etching, and quite as forcible is his impression of "Skyscrapers." John Nash, also an English artist, concentrates more on the design, abstracting the subject matter to fit this composition, and has succeeded in making some very pleasing small etchings. A head by Pechstein is the only blatantly modern piece of the English display...
...Antonio Donghi's study of three enigmatic figures, called "Carnival," which received first honorable mention; "Two Figures," languid, graceful girls painted by Bernard Karfiol of Manhattan, honorable mention. Then there were the "Calla Lillies" almost sticky with pollen as they poked stiffly from a vase, which brought Max Pechstein of Germany the $500 prize offered by the Allegheny County Garden Club...