Pietà

1912

Max Oppenheimer

Associated Names
Max Oppenheimer

Artist, Austrian, 1885 - 1954

Fritz Gurlitt

Publisher, German, 1854 - 1893

The image is an etching depicting two entangled figures. The figure on the left is wrapped around the standing figure on the right, their head close to the other's. The facial features of both figures are detailed but abstract and distorted. Both have short, dark, textured hair. The left figure wears a long, flowing garment, while the right figure appears naked, displaying anatomical details in the same style. They are surrounded by swirling lines and patterns in the background.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    drypoint on Japanese paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    image: 16.99 × 15.24 cm (6 11/16 × 6 in.)
    sheet: 35.72 × 26.67 cm (14 1/16 × 10 1/2 in.) (irregular)

  • Accession Number

    1971.35.5

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

2024

  • The Anxious Eye: German Expressionism and Its Legacy, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2024.

Bibliography

1993

  • Max Oppenheimer Verzeichnis der Druckgrafik. Exh. cat. Galerie Pabst, Munich, 1993: no. 11.

Inscriptions

recto, lower left below image, in graphite: 1/10; lower right below image, signed, in graphite: M OPP.; verso, upper left on hinge, in green ink: 119; center of sheet, stamped in black ink: National Gallery; lower left sheet, in graphite: G 2405 '50 / AB/3016

Wikidata ID

Q65511348

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