Bei Aussee (Near Aussee); a.k.a. Winter in Ausee

 

Max Pollak

  1886 - 1970 (biography)

c. 1910  

drypoint and aquatint in blue-black ink 

4 x 3 3/4" platemark 

pencil, lower right 

not stated; presumed fewer than 20 impressions 

pencil titled along lower left sheet edge; red Friedl Pollak Collection stamp in lower right sheet corner 

 

buff wove 

published 

artist 

22630 

$425.00 

Max Pollak presents layers of wintery atmosphere within a small format, deftly capturing the contrast of a small village against the backdrop of a dramatic mountain range. Aquatint is the primary medium to achieve the subtlety of distant treelines seen through falling now, and emerging facets of sheer, gleaming cliff faces.