Sketches Illustrating Faust
in or after 1925
Medium
1 vol: ill: 139 graphite drawings on the blank interleaves of a 1925 Bremer Presse (Munich) edition of Goethe's "Faust" (Zweite Teil)
Dimensions
page size: 21.7 x 14.2 cm (8 9/16 x 5 9/16 in.) accessory size: 22.7 x 14.5 cm (8 15/16 x 5 11/16 in.)
Classification
Volume
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Mrs. Max Beckmann
Accession Number
1984.64.67
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...