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Max Beckmann
The Sermon on the Mount1911

Not on view
Lithograph of a crowd of figures in loose, gestural black strokes, centered on a dark-robed bearded man seated with his head tilted back

Max Beckmann, The Sermon on the Mount, 1911, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, purchased with funds provided by Anna Bing Arnold, Museum Associates Acquisition Fund, and deaccession funds, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Max Beckmann
Title
The Sermon on the Mount
Place Made
Germany, Berlin
Date Made
1911
Medium
Lithograph on Japan paper
Dimensions
Image: 10 1/2 x 9 5/8 in. (26.67 x 24.45 cm); Sheet: 22 3/4 x 16 5/16 in. (57.7 x 41.5 cm)
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, purchased with funds provided by Anna Bing Arnold, Museum Associates Acquisition Fund, and deaccession funds
Accession Number
83.1.38d
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