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1881–1955 Germany
Max Hermann Pechstein (December 31, 1881 – June 29, 1955) was a German Expressionist painter and graphic artist, born in Zwickau; as young artist he became a member of the artist-group Die Brücke.
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What a variety of shapes exists in the lithograph when one prepares the stone for printing, etches it, and prints oneself. Above all, one must do the printing oneself!
Contented sleep releases the limbs. We await full moon. Await the dance!
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.
Man, air, trees, world are laid bare and are one!
It is the sure certainty of having found unity with nature, this calm causes one of the strongest experiences.
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.
We [the artists of Die Brücke ] were overjoyed to discover our complete unison in the urge for liberation, for an art surging forward, unrestricted by convention.
Now I drew as wildly during my tramps [during his walks through the Saxonian countryside] as I has fought before. [in his early youth]
A new day. Calm as seldom the beginning of such a one. Did I dream? No! Dream and contented pure was the night..
In 1907 I was most strongly influenced by Giotto during my first Italian trip, as well as by Etruscan sculpture and the early Etruscan landscape painting in the Vatican library in Rome.