Group Portrait, Eden Bar (Gruppenbildnis Edenbar)
Max Beckmann
1923
Medium
woodcut on wove paper
Dimensions
sheet: 66.99 × 54.61 cm (26 3/8 × 21 1/2 in.) image: 49.53 × 49.53 cm (19 1/2 × 19 1/2 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1964.8.319
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...