Print of the Day!! Tues, Nov 29, 2022, is by?Max Pollak (1886-1970): "Haus im Schnee", dtypoint and etching, ca 1907, edition under 20. $500.00.
Print of the Day!! Tuesday, November 29, 2022, is by Czech-born American printmaker?Max Pollak (1886-1970). Check out our on-going exhibition at: OnPaper.art: https://onpaper.art/the-annex-galleries
"Haus im Schnee" (House in Snow) is an intaglio, an etching with drypoint, printed chine collé by Czech-born American printmaker Max Pollak (1886-1970), done around 1907. The platemark measures 3-1/16 x 6-7/16 inches. It is pencil signed, by the artist in the margin beneath the lower platemark and is pencil titled in the lower left support sheet. This impression was from the artist's wife's personal collection and has her red FPC (Friedl Pollak Collection) stamp in the lower-left corner. It was printed by the artist in fewer than 20 impressions on a sheet of thin white wove paper that is collaged to a sheet of heavy cream wove paper that measures 12-1/8 x 9-1/2 inches. Our inventory number for this work is 22852.
This scarce intaglio by printmaker Max Pollak is available from the gallery for $500.00.
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Max Pollak, in order to get the delicate drypoint lines to print well, collaged a thin sheet of white oriental paper the size of the plate to a heavier sheet of ivory wove paper. This allowed the optimal printing quality but also added the ability for the viewer to handle the work. The light 'color' of the snow is created by this thin white paper whereas the margins are the heavier 'support sheet.'
The landscape composition is one of a series of prints Pollak did of winter in the Czech Alps in the early 20th century. This impression has a red "FPC" stamp in the lower margin, indicating it was from the personal collection of the artist's late widow, Freidl Pollak.
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Max Pollak, painter and printmaker, was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1886. He was raised in Vienna and, in 1902, he entered the Vienna Academy of Art where he studied under William Unger and Ferdinand Schmutzer. In 1912, Pollak traveled to Italy, France, and Holland to study and paint. During the First World War, he was appointed painter of the Austrian Army.
He immigrated to the United States in 1927, living for a time on the east coast where he produced a series of color aquatints of New York, Cincinnati, and Detroit. His first exhibition was at the 57th Street Art Gallery in New York and he was commissioned by Theodore Dreiser in 1929 to illustrate his book, My City. In 1938, Pollak and his wife, Friedl, moved to San Francisco, California. Pollak was inspired by his new city and its environs and produced beautiful views of San Francisco Bay Area. Later travels included trips to Mexico and Guatemala.
Max Pollak was a member of the Chicago Society of Etchers and the California Society of Etchers. His work is represented in the collections of the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, Berkeley, California; the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon, Eugene; the British Museum, London; the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the New York Public Library, New York; the Oakland Museum of California Art; the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, California; and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C
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