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Max WeberMax Weber Woodcut Print from "Primitives" Poetry Book Signed1926
1926
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This woodcut print is an expressionist print on one of the poems from Max Weber's poetry collection "Primitives: Poems and Woodcuts". This work is signed in pencil by Max Weber in the lower right corner. The print measures at 6.75 x 3.5 inches. This woodcut print was made with brown ink impressed on handmade wove paper. The original poetry book (of which only 350 were printed by Spiral Press) and contained eleven original illustrations from which this one was printed. This print was from a Greeting Card sent by Max Weber and Family for a Christmas and New Year's greeting ca. 1930s.
The poem this print was illustrated for was "Perfection - Greek", which reads:
On the Acropolis at Athens in Greece
Pericles and Phidias the Parthenon built, --
The symbol and pinnacle of Greek beauty and light.
To-day, now, ruined and bewailed
Lies the Acropolis of old.
Endless time it waits,
Again concretely answered to be
With forms less perfect, less final,
Perfection endless to make.
For, alas,
The cold marble colder still became,
In the hands of the all too perfect Greek.
Max Weber was born in 1881 in the Russian Empire. He and his family emigrated to the United States where he studied at the Pratt Institute under the painter and printmaker Arthur Wesley Dow who helped impart some of the influences of Paul Gauguin onto Weber. In 1905 he took up studies at the Académie Julian in Paris where he befriended Henri Rousseau and became influenced by the works of Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso. He returned to New York in 1909 bringing the bourgeoning Cubist movement with him in his works. While his art found some sucess through the 1940s and 1950s, he turned more toward a interest in his Jewish heritage in his art and away from the early Cubist and Expressionist works that he made his early name on.
His work has been collected and exhibited in the Addison Gallery of American Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Berkshire Museum, the Blanton Museum of Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Detroit Institute of Art, the Harvard Art Museums, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Art, the Phillips Collection, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and many more.
- Creator:Max Weber (1881-1961, American)
- Creation Year:1926
- Dimensions:Height: 9.5 in (24.13 cm)Width: 6.5 in (16.51 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Detroit, MI
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU128618907562
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