Three Heads
Max Beckmann
1876 to 1900
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View on museum website →Medium
graphite on laid paper
Dimensions
overall: 16.6 x 10.2 cm (6 9/16 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
1993.70.2
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...