Die Kranke (The Sick One) (plate 6) from Stadtnacht (City Night)
1920, published 1921
Medium
lithograph from a bound volume with seven lithographs on laid paper (including title page)
Dimensions
page size: 27.2 × 22.5 cm (10 11/16 × 8 7/8 in.) open: 27.8 × 45.3 cm (10 15/16 × 17 13/16 in.) closed: 27.8 × 23 cm (10 15/16 × 9 1/16 in.)
Classification
Volume
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Mrs. Max Beckmann
Accession Number
1984.64.83.7
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...