Kommen und Gehen (Kindheit und Alter). 1905.
Woodcut in colors, the black plate in the manner of the woodcut. In original mount.
Signed and dated. Once more signed and dated on the mount. On green paper. 17.9 x 18.1 cm (7 x 7.1 in). Sheet: 22,5 x 24,9 cm (8,9 x 9,8 in).
Mount: 30,5 x 31,2 cm (12 x 12,3 in). Published by Beyers Kunstanstalt in edition "Dresden 1905". [AM].

• The earliest known woodcut by the great expressionist.
• Unique in its technical realization in Hermann Max Pechstein's oeuvre.
• Further copies of this extraordinary print are at the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden, and the Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig.

PROVENANCE: Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Würzburg (acquired in 1990: Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg, June 7/8, 1990, with the collector's stamp, Lugt 6032)).

EXHIBITION: Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landesmuseum Schloss Gottorf, Schleswig (permanent loan from the Hermann Gerlinger Collection, 1995-2001).
Kunstmuseum Moritzburg, Halle an der Saale (permanent loan from the Hermann Gerlinger Collection, 2001-2017).
Buchheim Museum, Bernried (permanent loan from the Hermann Gerlinger Collection, 2017-2022).

LITERATURE: Günter Krüger, Das druckgraphische Werk Max Pechsteins, Hamburg 1988, no. H 1.
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Heinz Spielmann (ed.), Die Maler der Brücke. Sammlung Hermann Gerlinger, Stuttgart 1995, p. 239, SHG no. 341 (illu. on p. 240).
Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (eds.), Die Maler der Brücke. Inventory catalog Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Halle (Saale) 2005, p. 382, SHG no. 482 (illu.).
Hermann Max Pechstein, in: Das graphische Jahr , Berlin 1921, p. 101.

Good overall impression. The sheet with superficial paper losses in the margins as well as very isolated handling marks and crease. A tear in the lower right margin. Inscribed in mount.