Max Pechstein

Hermann Max Pechstein was a German expressionist painter and printmaker and a member of the Die Brücke group. He fought on the Western Front during World War I and his art was classified as Degenerate Art by the Nazis. More than 300 paintings were removed from German Museums during the Nazi era.

Works in Collection

79 works

Almanach auf das Jahr 1920

Max Pechstein

1920

And / lead / us not / into temptation (und führe / uns ni...

Max Pechstein

1921

And forgive / us / our debts (und vergieb / uns / Unsre S...

Max Pechstein

1921

And the power / and / the glory (Und die Kraft / und / di...

Max Pechstein

1921

Artiste (Artistin) (plate, folio 13 verso) from KG Brücke

Max Pechstein

1910

As we forgive / our / debtors (Wie wir vergeben / unsern ...

Max Pechstein

1921

Athlete (Athlet)

Max Pechstein

1909

Bathers (Badende) (plate, folio 14) from KG Brücke

Max Pechstein

1910

Bathers (Badende) (plate, preceding p. 329) from the peri...

Max Pechstein

1918

But deliver us from evil (Sondern erlöse uns von dem Übel...

Max Pechstein

1921

Cabaret Singer (Chansonette)

Max Pechstein

1909

Cover (Titelholzschnitt ) from The Lord's Prayer (Das Vat...

Max Pechstein

1921

Dancer (Pair of Dancers) (Tänzerin [Tänzerpaar])

Max Pechstein

1909

Dancer in the Mirror ( Tänzerin im Spiegel )

Max Pechstein

1923

Deutsche Graphiker der Gegenwart (German Printmakers of O...

Ernst Barlach

1920

Dialogue (Zwiesprache)

Max Pechstein

1920

Die Samländische Ode (The Samland Ode)

Max Pechstein

1918 (prints executed 1917)

Drunken Fisherman II (Betrunkener Fischer II)

Max Pechstein

1912

For Thine / is the kingdom (Denn Dein / ist das Reich) fr...

Max Pechstein

1921

For ever / and ever / Amen (Von Ewigkeit / zu Ewigkeit / ...

Max Pechstein

1921

Four Nudes at the Sea for the illustrated book The Samlan...

Max Pechstein

1917

Frontispiece from Yali und sein weisses Weib (Yali and Hi...

Max Pechstein

(1923)

Give us this day / our daily bread (Unser täglich Brot / ...

Max Pechstein

1921

Grief (Leid)

Max Pechstein

1908

Exhibitions

24 exhibitions

Mar 12, 1931 – Apr 22, 1931

German Painting and Sculpture

27 artists · 1 curator

Jul 11, 1934 – Sep 13, 1934

New Acquisitions: Lachaise Torso; Prints

21 artists

Apr 27, 1936 – Sep 02, 1936

Modern Painters and Sculptors as Illustrators

100 artists · 1 curator

May 10, 1949 – Jul 10, 1949

Master Prints from the Museum Collection

132 artists · 2 curators

Jun 23, 1953 – Oct 04, 1953

Summer Exhibition: New Acquisitions; Recent American Prints, 1947–1953; Katherine S. Dreier Bequest; Kuniyoshi and Spencer; Expressionism in Germany; Varieties of Realism

100 artists · 2 curators

Dec 07, 1954 – Feb 01, 1955

Modern Masterprints of Europe

72 artists · 1 curator

May 04, 1955 – May 31, 1955

Prints from Europe and Japan; Etchings by Matisse

32 artists · 1 curator

Nov 08, 1955 – Jan 08, 1956

Prints by Nolde and Kirchner

11 artists · 1 curator

Nov 28, 1956 – Jan 20, 1957

Recent European Acquisitions

37 artists · 1 curator

Dec 21, 1960 – Feb 05, 1961

Recent Acquisitions

222 artists · 3 curators

Dec 21, 1966 – Mar 05, 1967

The Taste of a Connoisseur: The Paul J. Sachs Collection

68 artists · 1 curator

Apr 28, 1967 – Apr 30, 1967

The Artist as His Subject

46 artists · 2 curators

Jun 06, 1967 – Sep 17, 1967

The Artist as His Subject

49 artists

Jun 15, 1973 – Sep 25, 1973

Recent Acquisitions, 1968–1973

62 artists · 1 curator

Mar 26, 1976 – Jun 01, 1976

The "Wild Beasts": Fauvism and Its Affinities

22 artists · 1 curator

Mar 03, 1983 – May 15, 1983

Prints from Blocks: Gauguin to Now

128 artists · 1 curator

Oct 26, 1983 – Jan 03, 1984

The Modern Drawing: 100 Works on Paper from The Museum of Modern Art

81 artists · 1 curator

May 06, 1985 – Dec 18, 1985

The Expressionist Idiom

43 artists · 1 curator

May 26, 1985 – Oct 29, 1985

Drawing in Austria and Germany

41 artists · 1 curator

May 29, 1986 – Sep 30, 1986

Naked/Nude

63 artists · 1 curator

Jan 24, 1987 – Jun 14, 1987

Drawings Acquisitions

65 artists · 1 curator

Nov 20, 1987 – Mar 08, 1988

Master Prints from the Collection

66 artists · 1 curator

Jun 06, 1988 – Sep 06, 1988

The Modern Poster

141 artists · 1 curator

Mar 16, 1989 – Jul 04, 1989

Watercolors: Selections from the Permanent Collection

39 artists · 1 curator