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Max Beckmann (1884-1950), Etching, ‘Gesellschaft’, 1915

Currency:EUR Category:Collectibles Start Price:1,500.00 EUR Estimated At:2,400.00 - 3,000.00 EUR
Max Beckmann (1884-1950), Etching, ‘Gesellschaft’, 1915
Dry point etching on laid paper by Van Gelder Zonen (watermark)
Germany, 1915
Max Beckmann (1884-1950) – German painter, graphic artist, and sculptor
Signed in pencil lower right with ‚Beckmann‘
Inscribed lower left ‘1. Zustand’
Edition of 50
Published by I. B. Neumann
Catalogue raisonné: Hofmaier 86 II B/C (of III B)
Plate size: 26 x 31.5 cm
Good condition
The etching ‘Gesellschaft’ by the German artist Max Beckmann once fetched over 11.500 euro at auction

The dry point etching on hand is a work by the prominent German artist Max Beckmann and dates to 1915. Distinctive facial features, eyes wide open and determined lines make up Beckmann’s recognizable style and the work on hand.



The work is in good condition. It shows slight signs of foxing all over. There is a tear of 2.5 cm in the upper left hand corner, a small restored tear and a few more restored tears on the right margin. It is signed lower right in pencil with ‘Beckmann’ and designated by another hand lower left with ‘1. Zustand’ (‘1. condition’). It is mounted under a mat on the upper edge (reversible). The measurements of the mat are 48 x 53 cm and the sheet measures 36.5 x 50.5 cm.



Max Beckmann (1884-1950)

Max Beckmann was born in Leipzig in 1884. He studied at the Ducal Collage of Art in Weimar in the years between 1900 and 1903. In 1905 he moved to Berlin where he joined the artist group Berlin Secession. In 1910 he is voted the youngest board member of the Berlin Secession. In 1913 Paul Cassirer organized a large retrospective of Beckmann’s work with a total of 47 paintings. A year later he is awarded with the Villa Romana prize which enables him a year-long study trip in Florence. In the First World War he volunteered as a paramedic. During this time he starts sketching many impressions of the war. As off 1925 he teaches as a professor in Frankfurt. From 1929 to 1932 he spends the winter months in Paris. In 1933 the Nazis dismiss him from his teaching position. In 1937 his work is classified ‘degenerate art’ and over 500 works are being pulled out of public German institutions. The artist emigrates to Paris and later to the Netherlands. In 1947 he migrates to America.
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