Evening
- Depicted
- Marta Möller, German, 1905–1976
- Date
- 1921
- Material
- Oil on canvas
- made in
- Berlin, Berlin state, Germany, Europe
- depicts
- Leba, Pomerania voivodship, Poland, Europe
- Classification
- Paintings
- Collection
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Current Location
- On View, Gallery 215
- Dimensions
- 32 1/8 x 40 in. (81.6 x 101.6 cm)
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Morton D. May
- Rights
- Public Domain
- Object Number
- 930:1983
NOTES
The sharply chiseled, mask-like faces in this painting are much influenced by Oceanic sculpture. Max Pechstein’s scene represents his wife, Marta, and her sister against an expansive plain around Leba, a fishing village in the Baltic region of Germany. Although produced some years after the dissolution of Die Brücke, the angst-ridden atmosphere and the intense, abstract colors, as in the green contours around the eyes, are reminiscent of the best Expressionist work.
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