Selbstbildnis (Self-Portrait) from the deluxe edition of Deutsche Graphiker der Gegenwart (German Printmakers of Our Time)
Max Beckmann
1920
Medium
drypoint from a bound volume with 15 lithographs, eight woodcuts, eight photomechanical reproductions, and one drypoint
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Robert M. Walker
Accession Number
1980.26.2.1
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...