Beckmann Sketchbook 44
1934
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sketchbook with 4 sketches in graphite; 10 blank pages, and several missing sheets
Dimensions
book: 36 x 27.5 cm (14 3/16 x 10 13/16 in.)
Classification
Volume
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Mrs. Max Beckmann
Accession Number
1984.64.22.1-4
Art Historical Context
**Beckmann Sketchbook 44** *Max Beckmann, 1934* Step into the intimate creative world of Max Beckmann, one of the 20th century's most compelling German Expressionist artists, through this modest yet revealing sketchbook from 1934. Created during a turbulent time in Germany—just before the Nazis branded his work "degenerate" and forced his exile—Beckmann's sketchbook captures the raw essence of an artist's mind at work. Measuring 36 x 27.5 cm, it contains just four graphite sketches amid 10 blank pages and several missing sheets, hinting at a private tool for fleeting ideas, studies, or pe...
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...