LACMA

ShopMembershipMyLACMATickets
LACMA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
5905 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90036
info@lacma.org
(323) 857-6000
Sign up to receive emails
Subscribe
© Museum Associates 2026
  • About LACMA
  • Jobs
  • Building LACMA
  • Host An Event
  • Unframed
  • Press
  • FAQs
  • Log in to MyLACMA
  • Privacy Policy
© Museum Associates 2026
Collections

Max Beckmann
Murder1914

Not on view
Expressive black line print on white paper showing four figures in an interior: one crawling on the floor, one standing and leaning over a reclining figure on a bed, and a smaller figure to the right holding a circular object

Max Beckmann, Murder, 1914, 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
Title
Murder
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1914
Medium
Drypoint on Japan paper
Dimensions
Plate: 9 x 10 7/8 in. (22.86 x 27.62 cm); Sheet: 10 1/4 x 12 11/16 in. (26.04 x 32.23 cm)
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Accession Number
M.82.288.384.31
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.

  • Reed, Orrel P., German expressionist art: the Robert Gore Rifkind Collection: prints, drawings, illustrated books, periodicals, posters. Exhibition Catalogue. Los Angeles: Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, 1977.
  • Gallwitz, Klaus. Die Druckgraphik: Radierungen, Lithographien, Holzschnitte. Katalogbearbeitung und Gesamtredaktion, Klaus Gallwitz. Hrsg. vom Badischer Kunstverein. Karlsruhe: Badischer Kunstverein, 1962.
Copyright
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

Related Unframed

Related Unframed

Absence as Monument: Victoria Fu Commemorates the Chinese Massacre of 1871
Absence as Monument: Victoria Fu Commemorates the Chinese Massacre of 1871
  • May 14, 2024
  • Sajji Lazarus
Reexamining the Grotesque: Selections from the Robert Gore Rifkind Collection
Reexamining the Grotesque: Selections from the Robert Gore Rifkind Collection
  • September 30, 2022
  • Kiko Thomas
Celebrating Black Joy and Liberation for Juneteenth
Celebrating Black Joy and Liberation for Juneteenth
  • June 17, 2022
  • Naima J. Keith
Accolades for “Betye Saar: Taking Care of Business”
Accolades for “Betye Saar: Taking Care of Business”
  • February 3, 2020
  • Erin Wright
Hollywood In Limbo: 1969–72 | Sundown on the American Western
Hollywood In Limbo: 1969–72 | Sundown on the American Western
  • April 29, 2019
  • Adam Piron
This Weekend at LACMA
This Weekend at LACMA
  • August 10, 2018
  • Victor Guzman
3D: Double Vision Film Series at the American Cinematheque
3D: Double Vision Film Series at the American Cinematheque
  • August 1, 2018
  • Nicholas Barlow
The Written Image and the Wordless Novel
The Written Image and the Wordless Novel
  • October 20, 2014
  • Erika Esau
Haunted Screens: German Cinema in the 1920s
Haunted Screens: German Cinema in the 1920s
  • October 15, 2014
  • Britt Salvesen
The Consummate Californian Flower
The Consummate Californian Flower
  • May 5, 2014
This Weekend at LACMA: Hitchcock 9 Ends, Late Summer Fridays Roll On, Free Concerts, and More
This Weekend at LACMA: Hitchcock 9 Ends, Late Summer Fridays Roll On, Free Concerts, and More
  • July 12, 2013
This Weekend at LACMA: Ambulante Film Series, Teen Night, Mother's Day, and More
This Weekend at LACMA: Ambulante Film Series, Teen Night, Mother's Day, and More
  • May 10, 2013
No image
Friday and Saturday Night: Young Women Filmmakers from Mexico
  • May 6, 2013
Caravaggio in Our Time
Caravaggio in Our Time
  • November 8, 2012
Metropolis, Dr. Caligari, and the Aesthetics of Expressionist Cinema
Metropolis, Dr. Caligari, and the Aesthetics of Expressionist Cinema
  • October 11, 2012
This Weekend at LACMA: Latin Sounds Returns, California Noir Films, Target Free Holiday Monday, and More
This Weekend at LACMA: Latin Sounds Returns, California Noir Films, Target Free Holiday Monday, and More
  • May 25, 2012
Summer Reading
Summer Reading
  • July 13, 2009
No image
Q&A with Machine Project's Mark Allen
  • November 14, 2008
No image
The Machine Project Rehearsals
  • October 24, 2008