Seeufer mit Bäumen und Häusern. 1931.
Watercolor.
Signed and dated in lower left. On wove paper (with embossing stamp), fully laid on a backing board. 49.8 x 62.2 cm (19.6 x 24.4 in), the full sheet. Backing board: 54,5 x 65,7 cm (21,5 x 25,9 in).
[CH].
• Last paradise: Pechstein spent the summers between 1927 and 1933 in Rowe, former Pomerania, before the dramatic political developments that soon followed.
• An expression of a particular lifestyle: Pechstein found great happiness in a simple and original life.
• Pechstein shows the forested shore of Lake Gard with its sunlit trees and the fishermen's cottages in fresh and cool colors.
• International success: in the year of its creation, some of the artist's works featured in the exhibition "German Painting and Sculpture" at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and in the "30th International Exhibition of Paintings" at the Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh.

PROVENANCE: Private collection Munich.
Private collection Baden-Württemberg (inherited from the above).

"Max and Marta rented such a small hut. They slept on straw sacks and, contrary to the situation in Leba, had to provide for themselves, so Marta had 'plenty of work to do'. The accommodation was in an idyllic location: 'Its just 100 steps from the house to the lake. [..] I can see the waves crashing on the beach from my window. The 'old beech forests that go down to all the way to the shoreline' have a particularly primeval charm."
Aya Soika, Max Pechstein. Das Werkverzeichnis der Ölgemälde, vol. 1, Munich 2011, p. 79, with a quotefrom Hermann Max Pechstein, letter from Rowe to E. and M. Plietzsch, July 5, 1927, Altonaer Museum, Hamburg.