Italian War Prisoners

 

Max Pollak

  1886 - 1970 (biography)

1917  

drypoint 

7 3/8 x 10 3/4" platemark 

pencil, lower right 

12 

bears the red FPC collector's stamp in the lower left; from the collection of Friedl Pollak; inscribed "printed a. 12" in lower left corner of the paper 

Triton Museum of Art, Max Pollak in Retrospect, cat. no. 18 

heavy cream wove paper 

published 

artist 

22569 

SOLD

In the catalog published by the Triton Museum for the 1973 retrospective, Max Pollak in Retrospect, the catalogue entry for this work contains this information: During World War I, Pollak was a war painter for the Austrian army. He was ordered to paint propaganda war pictures. "But I didn't," he explained. "I painted the horrors of war--the ruined cities, the wounded women and children." Unfortunately, this infuriated his surperior officers, and he was sent to the front as punishment.