Herma Prach

 

Max Pollak

  1886 - 1970 (biography)

c. 1925  

etching & color aquatint 

15 3/4 x 19 5/8" platemark 

pencil, lower right 

10/150 (likely fewer than 50 impressions printed) 

pencil titled and editioned; bears the red Friedl Pollak Collection stamp, lower left sheet corner 

Mills College Art Museum accession number 1999.13.1 

ivory simile vellum paper 

published 

artist 

23990 

$400.00 

Herma Prach was an Austrian ballerina who studied at the Vienna Opera Ballet School in the early 1910s and performed throughout Europe during the 1920s. Little else is found on her life and education, though she was noted in Vanity Fair and Theater magazines, deeming her one of Europe's favorite new dancers in 1923. An impression of this piece can be found in the permanent collection of the Mills College Art Museum.