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MAX ACKERMANN Glückliche Zeichen.
Color screenprint on heavy cream wove paper, 1958. 485x360 mm; 19 1/4x14 1/4 inches, full margins. Signed, dated and numbered 9/100 in pencil, lower margin. A very good impression with vibrant colors.
Ackermann (1887-1975) studied under the Belgian Art Noveau master Henry van de Velde (1863-1957) and later trained in Dresden (with Franz van Stuck, 1863-1928) and Stuttgart. In Munich, early in his career, Ackermann was a member of Der Blaue Reiter from 1918-19 and exhibited with Kandinsky in the 1920s. During the late 1920s, he spent time in Paris, where he became friends with Piet Mondrian (1906-1944). Ackermann was deemed a degenerate artist by the Nazi government in 1933 and was forbidden from teaching and exhibiting; most of his works were also confiscated and destroyed. Nevertheless, he retreated to the countryside and continued his abstract work at Hornstaad on Lake Constance, which became a thriving artists' colony. After World War II, Ackermann resettled in Stuttgart and became among the leading mid-century abstract artists in Germany.
