Sale: 533 / Modern Art Day Sale and Gerlinger Collection, Dec. 10. 2022 in Munich Lot 427

 

427
Hermann Max Pechstein
Plakat: Kunstausstellung Zurückgewiesener der Secession Berlin, 1910.
Lithograph in colors, print in black, red and gray
Estimate:
€ 6,000 / $ 6,480
Sold:
€ 15,000 / $ 16,200

(incl. surcharge)
Plakat: Kunstausstellung Zurückgewiesener der Secession Berlin. 1910.
Lithograph in colors, print in black, red and gray.
Krüger L 110. Bolliger 52; das frühe Plakat, III, no. 2523. Signed in the stone. On brownish wove paper. 69.5 x 93 cm (27.3 x 36.6 in), size of sheet. Sheet: 74,5 x 99,5 cm (29,2 x 39.1 in).
Poster for the exhibition of the Neue Secession Berlin at Kunstsalon Maximilian Macht from May 15 to July 15, 1910. [EH].
• Poster of the important first exhibition of the Neue Secession.
• This exhibition was the decisive step for Pechstein's breakthrough.
• In this exhibition Otto Mueller met the "Brücke" members for the first time.
• The administration office of the Neue Secession was at Galerie Maximilian Macht.
• With this poster, the archer became the emblem of the Neue Secession
.

PROVENANCE: Collection Hermann Gerlinger, Würzburg (with the collector's stamp Lugt 6032).

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

LITERATURE: Heinz Spielmann (ed.), Die Maler der Brücke. Sammlung Hermann Gerlinger, Stuttgart 1995, p. 113, SHG no. 68.
Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (eds.), Die Maler der Brücke. Inventory catalog Collection Hermann Gerlinger, Halle (Saale) 2005, p. 293, SHG no. 861.
Christiane Remm, "Zwischen Individualität und Gemeinschaft. Die Künstlergruppe 'Brücke' 1905-1913. Chronologie", in: Brücke, Die Geburt des deutschen Expressionismus, Berlin 2005, pp. 25f. with illu. (different copy).
"One of the young artists' most skillful moves, which guaranteed them further independence and attention and emphasized their special position, was the founding of the 'Neue Secession' in 1910 [..] Through Pechstein's election as president and certainly through his sensational poster for the first exhibition, the public saw him as the leader of the Neue Secession."
Aya Soika, Max Pechstein, der "Führer" der "Brücke," Anmerkungen zur zeitgenössischen Rezeption, Brücke archive 23, Berlin 2008, p. 85.

For the XX. exhibition of the Berlin Secession under the director Max Liebermann, planned from May to October 1910, the "Brücke" artists also faced the jury and were excluded along with other artists, among them Emil Nolde and Georg Tappert. Max Pechstein immediately founded the Neue Secession and organized a counter-exhibition with artists "rejected by the Secession", also including artists that did not belong to the "Brücke". The exhibition took place at Kunstsalon Maximilian Macht in Berlin from May 15 to July 15, 1910. In this situation Pechstein met Otto Mueller, who lived in Berlin. He had also been rejected by the Secession and showed interest in the artist group. With the exhibition of the "rejected artists", the break with the established forces around Max Liebermann and his secretary, the art dealer Paul Cassirer, took also place. Pechstein captured the atmosphere of the combative situation with the self-confident posture of his archer concentrated on the fight. Kneeling tensely on her left knee, her bow half cocked, Pechstein draws the stature of a powerful Amazon with waving hair and red lips. The aggressive scene is further determined by the multitude of typefaces, with which Pechstein advertised the information for the new format of the exhibition and the place where it would be held, and virtually created the logo of the New Secession. The conservative art critic Erich Vogeler outlines the public’s indignant reaction in the "Kunstwart": "The poster of the exhibition shows a clumsy, naked Indian woman, brutally jotted down, ready to shoot her arrow. Here is the program: the revolt of primitive raw art instincts against civilization, culture and taste in art." (Erich Vogeler, in: Der Kunstwart, 1910, p. 314) [MvL]



427
Hermann Max Pechstein
Plakat: Kunstausstellung Zurückgewiesener der Secession Berlin, 1910.
Lithograph in colors, print in black, red and gray
Estimate:
€ 6,000 / $ 6,480
Sold:
€ 15,000 / $ 16,200

(incl. surcharge)