Perchtoldsdorf

 

Max Pollak

  1886 - 1970 (biography)

c. 1920  

color aquatint with drypoint, printed chine colle 

12 3/4 x 12" platemark 

pencil, lower right 

numbered "52/" (only around 50 impressions printed) 

pencil titled; pencil editioned artially erased; secondarily editioned as "Printer a. 50" (around 50 printed) along lower center sheet edge; red Friedl Pollak Collection stamp in lower left corner 

 

thin laid collaged to Van Gelder cream wove 

published 

artist 

22852 

$450.00 

Perchtoldsdorf is a market town located next to the Vienna city limits in the Mödling District in Lower Austria. The town is noted for the Perchtoldsdorf Castle which is thought to have been laid out prior to 1000 AD as part of a chain of fortifications along the eastern rim of the Vienna Woods.

Pollak’s drypoint and color aquatint Perchtoldsdorf depicts the market square with St. Augustine Church, the fortified tower house, and the Holy Trinity Column, also known as the Plague Column. St. Augustine Church was originally the chapel of the Perchtoldsdorf castle but it was assigned as the parish church in 1217. The tower house (Wehrturm), with its height of 200 feet, is the town’s landmark and was built between 1450 and 1521 as part its defense. The plague was the source of pastor Maximilian Aunosky’s idea for a column in the market square but it wasn’t until after his death and the end of the Great Plague (1708-1714) that his successor realized the project. The foundation stone was laid in the fall of 1713 and the benediction took place in the summer of 1714. At the end of the nineteenth century the column was extensively restored and the balustrade was enlarged and some of the stone figures added.