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As we forgive / our / debtors (Wie wir vergeben / unsern / Schuldigern) from The Lord's Prayer (Das Vater Unser)

Max Pechstein · 1921

You're looking at As we forgive / our / debtors (Wie wir vergeben / unsern / Schuldigern) from The Lord's Prayer (Das Vater Unser) — a print by Pechstein, nineteen twenty-one. The piece is woodcut from a portfolio of twelve woodcuts and one woodcut cover, about 40 by 30 centimeters. In the picture, look for the mother and child.

Medium Woodcut from a portfolio of twelve woodcuts and one woodcut cover · Dimensions composition: 15 5/8 × 11 5/8" (39.7 × 29.5 cm); sheet: 23 7/16 × 16 5/16" (59.5 × 41.4 cm) · Credit Transferred from The Museum of Modern Art Library, New York

Hanging beside it in Gallery 514: The Poet Max Herrmann-Neisse, The Architect [Hans Poelzig]

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Hope, II, Untitled, Untitled, Untitled, New England Interior

More by Max Pechstein here: Our Father / which art / in heaven (Vaterunser / Der Du bist / im Himmel) from The Lord's Prayer (Das Vater Unser), Hallowed be / Thy name (Geheiliget werde / Dein Name) from The Lord's Prayer (Das Vater Unser), But deliver us from evil (Sondern erlöse uns von dem Übel) from The Lord's Prayer (Das Vater Unser), Title Page (Titelblatt) from The Lord's Prayer (Das Vater Unser), Thy kingdom come / Thy will be done / on earth as it is in heaven (Dein Reich komme / Dein Wille geschehe / Wie im Himmel also auch auf Erden) from The Lord's Prayer (Das Vater Unser), And forgive / us / our debts (und vergieb / uns / Unsre Schuld) from The Lord's Prayer (Das Vater Unser)