Toilette
Max Beckmann
1923
Medium
woodcut in black on moderately thick wove paper
Dimensions
image: 22.3 x 14.9 cm (8 3/4 x 5 7/8 in.) sheet: 35.1 x 28 cm (13 13/16 x 11 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Ruth and Jacob Kainen Collection
Accession Number
1997.93.1
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...