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Max Pechstein Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
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Original works by Max Pechstein available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas NEW! (There is a "Download" link for zooming in on some works, but confusingly this may take a while to become active)
Max Pechstein at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan Under the Trees, 1911
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW! Drawings collection online
Museum of Modern Art, New York City Includes biographical information about the artist
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW! Most but not all artists in the NGA database have works online
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Akron Art Museum, Ohio NEW! (Click on the "View objects by this artist" link)
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Conversation
Ball State Museum of Art, Indiana 2 works online
Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University, Illinois 14 works online (Note that this site opens each work in a new window)
Brooklyn Museum, New York City
Brücke Museum, Berlin-Dahlem, Germany
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Kunstmuseum Lucerne, Switzerland Choose the artist from the drop-down list, and click "START"
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
Magyar Nemzeti Galéria (Hungarian National Gallery), Budapest A rising storm, 1930
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Brazil (in Portuguese) 
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Portland Museum of Art, Maine Click thumbnail #2
Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri 5 paintings online
Schleswig-Holstein Museums, Germany 2 works online
Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago
Städtischen Museen Zwickau, Zwickau, Germany (in German)  Stillleben mit Obstschale (Still Life with Fruit Bowl), 1912
Städtischen Museen Zwickau, Zwickau, Germany (in German)  Wasserträgerin von Positano (Water Carrier of Positano), 1925
State Museums of Berlin
The Albertina, Vienna Tale of the Sea, 1920
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid (Images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image)
Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany (in German) 
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Smithsonian American Art Museum National Art Inventories List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)
Art Market: (e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Art Signature Dictionary NEW!
Lempertz Auction Gallery, Cologne, Germany -- Highlights from Past Sales Cornfield, 1922
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive (database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Max Pechstein at The Athenaeum 17 works online
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)  (a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)
Max Pechstein at CGFA
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish) 
PBase Photo Sharing (Tip: Set the image size to "original" to see photos at their highest resolution) Sunlight, 1921
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Miscellaneous Sites:
Max Pechstein 1881-1955 Website for a forthcoming catalogue raisonné being compiled by Aya Soika. Has a biography and several images online, but no information from the catalogue.
Peter Nahum At The Leicester Galleries, London, UK Archive of past displayed works which are "sold" or "not for sale"
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Max Pechstein  Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)  Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
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