POLLAK or POLLACK (Max) artist: [group of four Jewish men] c...

Hammer

£55

POLLAK or POLLACK (Max) artist: [group of four Jewish men] ca. 1921 etching, signed, contemporary frame & mount with framer's label on the verso is dated 1921 [Note: The present work is one of a series that is thought to have stemmed from a putative visit to Jaffa, Palestine. Max Pollak, painter and printmaker, was born in Prague, in 1886, but his family moved to Vienna, Austria when he was six months old. In 1902, aged 16, he entered the Vienna Academy of Art, studying painting and printmaking under William Unger and Ferdinand Schmutzer. During the First World War, he was appointed painter to the Austrian Army. He emigrated to the U.S. in 1927, where he had a very successful career as an artist, and died in Sausalito, California on May 29, 1970.