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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.
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culture · German painter (1881–1955) · painter · graphic artist · designer · draftsperson · also Max Pechstein, N Pechstein, Max Herman Pechstein, H. Max Pechstein, m. pechstein, max hermann pechstein
Born 31 December 1881 · Died 29 June 1955 · Q162105
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2026· 6 entries
ORF: Max Pechstein-Retrospektive im Lentos
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meinbezirk: Lentos zeigt Retrospektive zu Max Pechstein
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Krone: Max Pechstein: Rebell mit dem Pinsel lebt weiter
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Süddeutsche Zeitung: Kunstausstellung - Max Pechstein auf Tour: Meisterwerke machen Station in Linz
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welt.de: Max Pechstein auf Tour: Meisterwerke machen Station in Linz
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2025· 2 entries
ZEIT: Max-Pechstein-Museum: Neue Museumschefin in Zwickau – Geschichten neu erzählen
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NDR: Schau in Eutin: Max Pechstein und seine Liebe zu Fehmarns Fischköpfen
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2023· 1 entry
Christie's brokered a settlement with the heirs of Robert Graetz, a Jewish textile industrialist and art collector who was deported and murdered by the Nazis, concerning Still Life With a Cup, which Graetz's daughter sol
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2021· 1 entry
MutualArt.com: Max Pechstein and Rudolf Belling in Galerie Goyert in Köln
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2013· 1 entry
Career landmark: claim for restitution of an artwork.
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1955· 4 entries
Died 1955-06-29.
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“Now I drew as wildly during my tramps [during his walks through the Saxonian countryside] as I has fought before. [in his early youth]”
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“We desire to achieve to the socialist republic not only the recovery of the conditions of art, but also the beginning of a unified artistic area for our time.”
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“I would like to express my longing for happy experiences. I do not want us to be for ever regretting. Art has been and remains the part of my life that brings me happiness.”
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1954· 1 entry
Awarded Berliner Kunstpreis (1954).
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1945· 1 entry
And subsequently won numerous titles and awards for his work
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1933· 1 entry
Pechstein was vilified by the Nazis because of his art
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1922· 1 entry
Pechstein became a professor at the Berlin Academy
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1912· 1 entry
After years of rising tensions, Pechstein was expelled from the Brücke after exhibiting some of his work in the aforementioned Berlin Secession all by himself and without paintings of other members of the Brücke
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1910· 1 entry
Helped to found and became chairman of the New Secession and gained recognition for his decorative and colorful prints that were inspired by the art of Van Gogh, Matisse, and the Fauves
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1907· 1 entry
Pechstein traveled to Italy to receive an award, and upon his return in 1908 spent time in Paris where he met the Fauvist painter Kees van Dongen whom he persuaded to join Die Brücke
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1905· 1 entry
Was in Dresden where the museum of ethnology showed wood carvings from the South Seas
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1902· 1 entry
That he became a pupil of Gussmann; a relationship that lasted until 1906 when Pechstein met Erich Heckel and was invited to join the art group Die Brücke
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1881· 1 entry
Born 1881-12-31.
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