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Max Beckmann
The Tightrope Walkers1921

Not on view
Lithograph with bold black hatching showing two large figures — one striped and seated, one robed and standing — looming over small stilted buildings on a cream-colored sheet, signed in lower right

Max Beckmann, The Tightrope Walkers, 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
Title
The Tightrope Walkers
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1921
Medium
Drypoint on handmade paper
Dimensions
Plate: 10 1/8 x 10 1/16 in. (25.72 x 25.56 cm); Sheet: 20 3/4 x 15 in. (52.71 x 38.1 cm)
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Accession Number
M.82.288.19h
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.

  • 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.


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