Crowd of People
Max Beckmann
1918
Medium
pen and brown ink on graph paper
Dimensions
overall: 13.7 x 22.1 cm (5 3/8 x 8 11/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Given in memory of Frederick Zimmermann by his wife, Dorothy Zimmermann
Accession Number
1985.18.16
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Max Beckmann · 1884–1950
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...