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Max Beckmann
Behind the Scenes1921

Not on view
Expressionist print in bold black ink on cream paper, crowded interior scene with roughly ten figures, heavy gestural linework

Max Beckmann, Marées-Gesellschaft, Kunstverlag Franz Hanfstaengl, Behind the Scenes, 1921, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Max Beckmann
Germany, also active Netherlands and United States,1884-1950
Publisher
Marées-Gesellschaft
Germany, Munich, 1917-1929
Printer
Kunstverlag Franz Hanfstaengl
Title
Behind the Scenes
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1921
Medium
Drypoint
Dimensions
Plate: 8 1/4 x 12 in. (20.96 x 30.48 cm); Sheet: 15 1/16 x 20 1/2 in. (38.26 x 52.07 cm)
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Accession Number
M.82.288.19c
Classification
Prints
Collecting Area
Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Selected Bibliography
  • Davis, Bruce. German Expressionist Prints and Drawings: The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies. Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1989; Munich, Germany: Prestel, 1989.

  • Chipp, Herschel B. and Karin Breuer. The Human Image in German Expressionist Graphic Art From the Robert Gore Rifkind Foundation. Berkeley: University Art Museum, Berkeley, 1981.
  • Gallwitz, Klaus. Die Druckgraphik: Radierungen, Lithographien, Holzschnitte. Katalogbearbeitung und Gesamtredaktion, Klaus Gallwitz. Hrsg. vom Badischer Kunstverein. Karlsruhe: Badischer Kunstverein, 1962.
  • Barron, Stephanie, and Sabine Eckmann. New Objectivity: Modern German Art in the Weimar Republic, 1919–1933. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art and DelMonico Books/Prestel, 2015.


Copyright
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

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