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AdmittedMax Pechstein · 1921
This is Title Page (Titelblatt) 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.
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: Our Father / which art / in heaven (Vaterunser / Der Du bist / im Himmel) from The Lord's Prayer (Das Vater Unser), For ever / and ever / Amen (Von Ewigkeit / zu Ewigkeit / Amen) from The Lord's Prayer (Das Vater Unser)
Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: The Last Supper, MAY 20, 1967, Come on the Telephone, DEC. 17, 1979, Artist's Shit No. 014, DEC. 18, 1979
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), 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), And / lead / us not / into temptation (und führe / uns nicht / in Versuchung) from The Lord's Prayer (Das Vater Unser)
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