Mislau

 

Max Pollak

  1886 - 1970 (biography)

1914  

pastel drawing 

13 5/8 x 9" image size 

pencil, lower left 

 

pencil titled and dated "Miscau VI.14" in lower left; bears the red Friedl Pollak Collection stamp in lower left 

 

toothy cream wove with "1918 England" watermark 

 

 

23691 

$450.00 

Mislau is the German spelling for Myslová, now known as Kostelni Mysolvá in the Czech Republic - though at the time of Pollak's execution of this piece, it was still Czechoslovakia. Many of the drawings Max Pollak did during his time as a war artist for the Austrian Army were during the First World War; as such, names of places, often translated from their original language into German by the artist, are often no longer in use or have been altered to accomodate the drastically changing maps of European boundaries during the 20th century. Judging by their costume, these two women are of Germanic descent. One holds a book and the other a kerchief; they may be on their way to church.