16th exhibition of the Berlin Secession: Zeichnende Künste, Berlin, 1908, cat. no. 904. "I traveled to Paris in December. Here I was also more attracted by the Cluny Museum and the Gothic sculptures of the cathedrals, Notre-Dame and Saint-Denisthe, than by the art of the nineteenth century. But what charmed me the most, even if I avoided mingling with painters and poets, was the life of the Seine city, its crowds [..]. On foot, I walked through the old Paris, with its air saturated with history. I looked at the beauty of the bridges and the panorama up to the lost palaces of the Ile-Saint-Louis. I don"t need to mention that I visited all the art exhibitions, that I eagerly browsed the show windows of the bouquinists on the Quai.." Hermann Max Pechstein on his stay in Paris 1907-08, quoted from: Jürgen Schilling, Max Pechstein. Zeichnungen und Aquarelle, ex. cat. Kunstverein Wolfsburg, October 4 - November 15, 1987, p. 10.