Prof. Hermann Max Pechstein, Im Harem
two ladies sitting on a sofa in a sparsely suggested interior, pen ...

Prof. Hermann Max Pechstein, Im Harem
two ladies sitting on a sofa in a sparsely suggested interior, pen lithograph, ligatured monogram and dated "HMP (19)09" in the image, slightly browned, framed under mount and behind glass, mount cut-out approx. 24 x 31 cm. Artist info: actually Hermann Max Pechstein, German painter, graphic artist, sculptor. Painter, graphic artist, sculptor and craftsman (1881 Zwickau - 1955 Berlin), 1896-1900 apprenticeship as a decorative painter in Zwickau, afterwards studies at the Staatliche Kunstgewerbeschule and from 1902 master pupil of Otto Gussmann, from 1903 further education at the academy in Dresden, 1906 meeting with Erich Heckel and Ernst-Ludwig Kirchner, from then on member of the artists' association "Brücke", 1907 with Saxon State Prize stay in Italy and 1907/08 in Paris, from 1908 in Berlin, 1908 member of the Berlin "Secession" and 1910 member of the "Neue Secession" which led to his exclusion from the "Brücke" in 1912, from 1909 regular stays in Nidden (East Prussia) and in Italy, undertook numerous study trips, among others to the Palau Islands and to Southern France, 1918 co-founder of the "Novembergruppe", from 1923 professor and member of the Prussian Academy of Arts, 1933 dismissed as "degenerate" and banned from painting, 1937 expelled from the Academy, 1944 loss of a large part of his life's work due to the effects of war, 1945 again professor at the Berlin Academy of Fine Arts (HBK), Source: Thieme-Becker, Vollmer, Dressler, Wikipedia, lists of students at the Dresden Academy, files of the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts Berlin and Internet.