Beach
Max Beckmann
1922
Medium
drypoint on heavy wove cream paper
Dimensions
plate: 21.6 × 32.5 cm (8 1/2 × 12 13/16 in.) sheet: 37 × 21.5 cm (14 9/16 × 8 7/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen
Accession Number
2012.92.166
About the Artist
Max Beckmann
Max Carl Friedrich Beckmann (1884-1950) stands as one of the most significant German painters of the twentieth century, a complex artist who bridged Expressionism and the New Objectivity while forging a deeply personal visual language. Born in Leipzig into a middle-class family, Beckmann's artistic journey spanned from academic classicism through the traumatic crucible of World War I to a mature s...