Head of a Wounded Soldier
Max Beckmann
1914
Medium
graphite on light brown wove paper
Dimensions
overall: 16.4 x 10.2 cm (6 7/16 x 4 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Max Kahn, New York
Accession Number
1995.26.2
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...