id:			135803
accession number:	1959.328
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1959.328
updated:		2023-03-24 11:13:12.273000

Renunciation (Entsagung), 1908. Max Pechstein (German, 1881–1955). Lithograph; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund 1959.328 © Artists Right Society (ARS), New York

title:				Renunciation (Entsagung)
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creation date:			1908
creation date earliest:		1908
creation date latest:		1908
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creditline:			Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund
copyright:			© Artists Right Society (ARS), New York

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culture:	Germany, 20th century
technique:	lithograph
department:	Prints
collection:	PR - Lithograph
type:		Print
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catalogue raisonne: Krüger L27

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* Max Pechstein (German, 1881–1955)  - artist

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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Year in Review - Nineteen Hundred Sixty
	opening date:   1960-11-30T05:00:00
	<i>Year in Review - Nineteen Hundred Sixty</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 30, 1960-January 1, 1961).

	title:		German Expressionist Graphics
	opening date:   1980-05-07T04:00:00
	<i>German Expressionist Graphics</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (May 7-October 5, 1980).

	title:		Eastward from the Rhine: Romanticism to Abstraction, 1800-1925
	opening date:   1984-06-12T04:00:00
	<i>Eastward from the Rhine: Romanticism to Abstraction, 1800-1925</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 12-September 9, 1984).

	title:		Graphic Discontent: German Expressionism on Paper
	opening date:   2018-01-14T05:00:00
	<i>Graphic Discontent: German Expressionism on Paper</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (January 14-May 27, 2018).

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This unconventional image of a nude woman focuses not on the beauty of the female body but instead on its physical discomfort. The title of the print implies that the woman renounces the material world around her—perhaps by necessity rather than choice. Max Pechstein and other members of the Dresden-based Expressionist group Die Brücke began to print their own lithographs in 1907. In keeping with their desire to challenge traditional print processes, they dramatically altered their drawings once on the lithographic stone. Here, Pechstein disturbed the ink by applying a wash made with turpentine, creating grainy globules across blurred and broken lines, an effect that further emphasizes the woman’s state of physical and emotional isolation.
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