For the XX. exhibition of the Berlin Secession under the director Max Liebermann, planned from May to October 1910, the "Brücke" artists also faced the jury and were excluded along with other artists, among them Emil Nolde and Georg Tappert. Max Pechstein immediately founded the Neue Secession and organized a counter-exhibition with artists "rejected by the Secession", also including artists that did not belong to the "Brücke". The exhibition took place at Kunstsalon Maximilian Macht in Berlin from May 15 to July 15, 1910. In this situation Pechstein met Otto Mueller, who lived in Berlin. He had also been rejected by the Secession and showed interest in the artist group. With the exhibition of the "rejected artists", the break with the established forces around Max Liebermann and his secretary, the art dealer Paul Cassirer, took also place. Pechstein captured the atmosphere of the combative situation with the self-confident posture of his archer concentrated on the fight. Kneeling tensely on her left knee, her bow half cocked, Pechstein draws the stature of a powerful Amazon with waving hair and red lips. The aggressive scene is further determined by the multitude of typefaces, with which Pechstein advertised the information for the new format of the exhibition and the place where it would be held, and virtually created the logo of the New Secession. The conservative art critic Erich Vogeler outlines the public’s indignant reaction in the "Kunstwart": "The poster of the exhibition shows a clumsy, naked Indian woman, brutally jotted down, ready to shoot her arrow. Here is the program: the revolt of primitive raw art instincts against civilization, culture and taste in art." (Erich Vogeler, in: Der Kunstwart, 1910, p. 314) [MvL]