Max Pechstein Art

“A voice is heard in Ramah, mourning and great weeping, Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.” This verse from Jeremiah 31:15 is the subject of this woodcut print by Jacob Steinhardt, depicting Rachel, who was the mother of the tribes of Joshua and Benjamin, and who was the wife of Jacob who was Israel, weeping for her children which is to be understood as after the destruction of the First Temple in Jerusalem, the Israelites were clustered into Ramah, the home of the Benjaminites, before being taken into the Babylonian captivity; Rachel is weeping for the destruction and expulsion of her descendants. This work is exemplary of the Jewish themes of Jacob Steinhardt, a German Jew...

Walter Becker was born in 1893 in Essen, Ruhr, Germany. Considered an important graphic artist of the "lost generation", Becker is well known for his depictions of figures and portraits in a style that combined elements of German Expressionism, Dada, and French modernism. He worked in a variety of print media, including color lincut, lithography, woodcut and etching. After a short military service, Becker studied under the German Sculptor Karl Albiker at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts. He moved to southern France where he lived and worked from 1924-1935, and was in contact with George Braque, Thomas...

Dancers Georges Rouault, French (1871–1958) Date: 1936 Woodcut, initialed in the stone Size: 3 x 2 in. (7.62 x 5.08 cm) Frame Size: 9.5 x 8.25 inches

ONE WEEK ONLY SALE 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 penci...

Pinchas Burstein, known as Maryan Lithograph (after the drawing). 1960 Dimensions: 12 3/8 x 9 3/8 inches (315 x 240mm). There is printed text on the back, as issued. Signed in the...

Lithograph on vélin des Papeteries du Marais paper. Paper Size: 14 x 10.25 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Contes de Boccace, peinture...

’Am Strand liegender Knabenakt’ By Willy Jaeckel Medium - Stone Lithograph Signed - Yes Edition - Unkown Date - 1918 Size - 277mm x 290mm Condition - 8. In reasonable conditio...

Artist: Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (German, 1884-1976) Title: "Zwei Frauen (Two Women)" Portfolio: Das Spiel Christa vom Schmerz der Schönheit des Weibes (The Play Christa from the Pain of the Beauty of the Woman) *Issued unsigned Year: 1918 Medium: Original Woodcut Engraving on wove paper Limited edition: Unknown Printer: Fritz Voigt, Berlin, Germany Publisher: Verlag Die Aktion, Berlin, Germany Reference: Schapire No. 222, page 45; Jentsch No. 35. Rifkind No. 2563; Lang No. 300; Reed No. 118 Overall size with attached page: 8.5" x 10.63" Sheet size: 8.5" x 5.38" Image size: 6.5" x 3.63" Condition: Toning to sheet (as normal). A few tiny pinholes in right margin. In very good condition Very rare Notes: Provenance: private collection - Oxnard, CA. Comes from a complete originally bound 48 page folio with 9 original woodcut engravings by Schmidt-Rottluff. Text by Alfred Brust. Presently attached to its accompanying page. The cover and title pages in pictures are not included, only for reference/provenance. There is an example of this work in the permanent collection of the Brücke Museum, Berlin, Germany. Biography: Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (born December 1, 1884, Rottluff, near Chemnitz, Germany—died August 9, 1976, West Berlin [now Berlin]), German painter and printmaker who was noted for his Expressionist landscapes and nudes. In 1905 Schmidt-Rottluff began to study architecture in Dresden, Germany, where he and his friend Erich Heckel met Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Fritz Bleyl...

OTTO MUELLER (German 1874 – 1930) POTSDAMER KUNSTSOMMER, 1921 (1968) (Karsch 6) Woodcut. Edition of 25 and numbered 11. There are no known impressio...

Drypoint printed in dark brown on heavy cream wove paper with wide margins. This is the third state (of four) from a small edition of only several. Signed and inscribed "II Zustand" ...

KAREL APPEL (1921 - 2006) BLACK FACE, 1969 Lithograph in colors signed in pencil. Edition 26/75, Image: 19 3/4 x 25 1/4, sheet: 22 x 30 inches. Just hint of a mat line Appel was a member of the Cobra art movement

Artist: Theo Tobiasse (French/Israeli, 1927-2012) Title: Je Sens monter en moi des chants de plaisir (I Feel Songs of Pleasure Rise in Me) Year: Circa 1980 Medium: Color lithograp...