Miss H.

 

Max Pollak

  1886 - 1970 (biography)

c. 1930  

drypoint and color aquatint 

17 5/16 x 9 7/16" platemark 

pencil, lower right 

25 of 100  

pencil titled and editioned, lower margin; "Made in Germany" stamped on verso 

 

antique-white simili-vellum wove 

published 

artist 

DASL147 

$1,500.00 

This could very well be another of Max Pollak's portraits from Berlin, drawn on the plate from sketches he did of friends in the art world during his time there between the wars. This fashionable young woman, known here only as Miss H., strikes an elegant pose in an off-the-shoulder striped gown, her coy expression slightly exagerrated. Having been a battlefield artist for the Austrian army during World War I, he immersed himself in Berlin's exciting and revolutionary arts scene as soon as the war ended, surrounding himself with dancers, actors, musicians, and fashion designers who explored the transformational edge of modernism.