Max Pechstein's Dance from 1910 is an example of the work of this artist who was invited to join Die Brucke by Erich Heckel and was the only one among them who actually had art training from the Royal Academy in Dresden. Also in 1910, he helped found the New Secession in Berlin after his art was rejected by the Berlin Secession exhibition. He eventually was deemed too conservative by his colleagues as his work was selling. Along with many others he left Berlin during the Nazi regime because his work was characterized as degenerate. Which of course, is the furthest thing we might think upon seeing this lyrical painting of a dancer in her arabesque penchee.