Dancers: Maru Kosjera

 

Max Pollak

  1886 - 1970 (biography)

c. 1925  

drypoint with color aquatint 

14 1/8 x 7 11/16" platemark 

pencil, lower right 

not stated; presumed less than 30 impressions 

pencil titled, lower left, and along lower sheet edge with: "(Czechian dancer)"; red "FPC" Friedl Pollak Collection stamp in lower left sheet corner 

 

cream Van Gelder Zonen laid 

published 

artist 

23871 

$450.00 

Little is found on the dancer Maru Kosjera, though she appears to have been a prolific performer in Europe in the 1920s and '30s. She toured with the Viennese choreographer Ellinor Tordis in the mid 1920s.