Lot 493 D

In 1919, Max Pechstein spent 2 weeks during an evidently “splendid” spring in Buchholz, near Ratzeburg, of which not only the brightly blossoming trees of the North German landscape on the recto of our postcard bear witness. Towards the end of his stay from mid to late May, he dedicates a few short lines to his friend Eduard Plietzsch, obviously already anticipating their next meeting in Berlin.
Max Pechstein and the five-year younger art historian were very close during their entire lives and maintained a lively correspondence. As from 1910, Plietzsch was assistant to director Wilhelm Bode at the Collection of Paintings at the Königliche, now Staatliche Museen Berlin. In 1919, he married the art historian Mica Luckau, whom Pechtsein was to portray in a large-scale format two years later.