Ice Skating (Eislauf)
Max Beckmann
1922
Medium
lithograph in black on light pink japan paper
Dimensions
sheet: 60.4 x 40.2 cm (23 3/4 x 15 13/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Frank R. and Jeannette H. Eyerly
Accession Number
1995.77.3
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...