Tag: illustration

Dancer Thea von Ujj , ca. 1925

Max Pollak :: Thea von Ujj , ca. 1925. Color aquatint with etching. |src Annex Gallery
«While in Vienna Max Pollak became involved in the avant-garde dance scene. He did a series of intaglio portraits of dancers, usually costumed and posed, from one of their noted performances. He is sometimes credited with being ‘the first etcher to turn his attention to the dance as a subject‘.»

Lo Hesse, ca. 1925

Max Pollak :: Lo Hesse, ca. 1925. Drypoint with color aquatint. src Annex Gallery
«Lo Hesse was a German dancer, model, and muse of Avant Garde designer Walter Schnackenberg in Berlin and Munich in the 1910s. She was known for her extravagantly costumed performances with famed dancer Joachim von Seewitz.»

Fritzi Massary als M. Pompadour

Max Pollak :: Fritzi Massary (Madame Pompadour). Farbige Kaltnadelarbeit. Die Graphischen Künste. Gesellschaft für Vervielfältigende Kunst (editor), Wien, 1924. | src Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg

Danseuses, 1912

Pierre-Gérard Carrier-Belleuse :: Le jour de l’examen (danseuses), Salon de 1912, nº 6098. | src DelCampe

Lying Figure, 1926 (nude)

Max Pollak :: Lying Figure, 1926. Drypoint etched on copper plate made from discarded WWI ammunition shell. | src Annex Gallery