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82.200 Midday
1920
Lithograph, sheet: 14 1/2 x 10" (37 x 25 cm); composition: 6 7/8 x 6" (17.5 x 15.2 cm)
Signed, lr: Mayrshofer; ll: Mittag, 68/100
Mayrshofer, Max
Born Munich, April 4, 1875; died Munich, December 9, 1950
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82.200 Midday
1920
Lithograph, sheet: 14 1/2 x 10" (37 x 25 cm); composition: 6 7/8 x 6" (17.5 x 15.2 cm)
Signed, lr: Mayrshofer; ll: Mittag, 68/100
Midday 1920
Mayrshofer’s particular thematic interest was always the depiction of the female nude in natural settings. This work is one of a series he completed at Lake Weissling in Upper Bavaria in 1919-20. The scene is characteristic of Mayrshofer’s style, with its elegant, graceful lines and rhythmic interaction between figures and surrounding landscape. Mayrshofer found in lithograph the perfect graphic medium for reproducing his impressionistic images. The method by which he depicts the trees here, with an emphasis on the painterly effects possible with the lithograph crayon, demonstrates his mastery of this technique.
