The Prints and Drawings of Max Pollak
UKRAINE
Images from 1914-1917
The Annex Galleries
A selec'on of five drawings by Austrian/American ar'st Max Pollak (1886 – 1970), from the estate of the ar'st’s wife, Friedl Pollak. Czechoslovakian-born Max Pollak studied at the Austrian Academy of Art beginning in 1902, and traveled throughout Italy, France, and Holland following gradua'on to further his ar's'c research. With the onset of World War I, he was conscripted into service as an official painter for the Austrian Army, capturing harrowing images of life in war 'me as well as the daily lives of Central and Eastern Europeans
The images in this collec'on are of the people of rural Ukraine between 1914 and 1917 As these were done during WWI, they may have been sketches Pollak made to keep himself occupied while he was serving in the Army, perhaps to be used as references for intaglios when he had the 'me and materials.
The Annex Galleries’ vast collec'on of prints and drawings by Pollak includes numerous images of pre-World War II Eastern, Central, and Southern Europe. For inquiries about the drawings in this collec'on or to see other works by Pollak, please contact the gallery:
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Mislau
Pastel and graphite drawing, ca. 1915. Pencil signed. On buff PLBAS watermarked wove. 8-7/8 x 11-1/2” image size.
Inventory no. 24045
Mislau
Pastel and graphite drawing, 1914. Pencil signed; estate stamped. On cream 1918 England watermarked wove. 13-5/8 x 9” image size.
Inventory no. 23691
Rarance
Graphite drawing with pastel, 1917. Pencil signed. On toothy cream wove paper. 12-1/2 x 7-1/4" image size. Inventory no. 23697
Rarance (two boys with produce)
1917.
On toothy cream wove paper 9-1/8 x 11” image size.
Inventory no. 23782
Rarance (man in hat)
Graphite and pastel drawing, 1917. Pencil signed; estate stamped. On toothy an'que-white wove paper 14 x 4-1/16” image size.
Inventory no. 23696
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