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Herman Max Pechstein

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Herman Max Pechstein

born: Eckerbach (near Zwickau), Germany; 31, December 1881
died: Berlin, West Germany; 29 June, 1955

1896	15	Starts a four-year apprenticeship with an interior decorator in Zwickau
1900	19	He moves to Dresden in 1900 to study at the School of Arts and Crafts.
1902	21	As early as 1902 he takes part in the school’s art competition submitting entries in all six subjects, and wins five first prizes and one second. He is asked to become a teacher at the school, hut he decides to transfer to the Academy where he remaines as star pupil until 1906.
1905	24	Pechstein is awarded the Saxon State Prize for Painting and he also produces his first woodcuts.
1906	25	Pechstein met Heckel and became a member of Die Brücke.
1907	26	In the autumn of he set our for Italy and returned to Paris in 1908
1908	27	Then he travelled to Paris where he exhibited with the Société Anonyme. His stay in Paris had resulted in a meeting with Van Dongen—who became a member of Die Brücke in 1908 Pechstein becomesfamiliar with the work of Matisse, which exercised a direct influence on his pictures in 1911-1912. He stays in Paris for six months and then settles in Berlin.
1910	29	After the Berlin Secession rejected his work, he became a founder member of the New Secession working in Berlin and at the Moritzburg Lakes with Heckel, Kirchner and Schmidt-Rottluff.
1912	31	Pechstein is invited to exhibit with the Berlin Secession and as a result he is barred from Die Brücke.
1914	33	He goes to Palau in the South Seas. He found here the harmony between nature and man which he hadbeen seeking. The outbreak of war soon put an end to his light-hearted way of life, and Pechstein was taken prisoner by the Japanese.
1915	34	Returns to Germany.
l918	37	Back in Berlin, Pechstein founded the Work Council of Art and the November Group with George Tappert and other contemporary artists.
1922	41	Member of the Prussian Academy of Arts.
1933	52	He is forbidden to paint or exhibit by the Nazi authorities.
1937	56	He has 326 works confiscated by the Nazis as "degenerate," six of which were entered in the Degenerate Art exhibition in Munich.
1944	63	His studio is destroyed along with a large number of his works by Allied bombing.
1945	64	Professorship at the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin.
1955	74	Pechstein dies in West Berlin.

Still Life with Cherries 1906	Landscape with River about 1907 Folkwang Museum Essen, Germany	Girl in Red with Parasol 1909 Hessiches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt, Germany
Open Air (Bathers in Moritzburg) 1910 Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany	Meadow at Moritzburg 1910 Leonard Hutton Galleries, New York, NY, US	The Green Sofa 1910 Museum Ludwig Cologne, Germany
Summer in the Dunes 1911 Staatliche Museen Berlin, Germany	Beach at Nidden 1911 Staatliche Museen Berlin, Germany	Early Morning 1911
Tempest 1911	In the Moritzburg Woods 1909 Brücke Museum Berlin, Germany	Three Nudes in a Landscape 1911 Georges Pompidou Center Paris, France

Red Houses
1923
Sprengel Museum
Hanover. Germany

Tales of the Sea
1920

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