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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)

Max Pechstein · 1921

Here we have 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) — a print by Pechstein, nineteen twenty-one. It's woodcut from a portfolio of twelve woodcuts and one woodcut cover, about 40 by 30 centimeters.

Medium Woodcut from a portfolio of twelve woodcuts and one woodcut cover · Dimensions composition: 15 5/8 × 11 5/8" (39.7 × 29.6 cm); sheet: 23 3/8 × 16 1/4" (59.3 × 41.3 cm) · Credit Transferred from The Museum of Modern Art Library, New York

Hanging beside it in Gallery 514: Family Picture, For Thine / is the kingdom (Denn Dein / ist das Reich) from The Lord's Prayer (Das Vater Unser)

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Untitled (Photo shoot at a school for one of the many modeling groups who had begun to embrace natural hairstyles in the 1960s), Proletarian Intellectuals [Else Schuler, Tristan Rémy, Franz Wilhelm Seiwert, Gerd Arntz], Untitled, Untitled, Untitled photographs from an untitled album with a sonnet by Edwin Denby, The Country Sociable - New England - 1915

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), And forgive / us / our debts (und vergieb / uns / Unsre Schuld) from The Lord's Prayer (Das Vater Unser), And / lead / us not / into temptation (und führe / uns nicht / in Versuchung) from The Lord's Prayer (Das Vater Unser)