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Max Beckmann
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Fan account of Max Beckmann, a German painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor, and writer.
1884-1950
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Title page (Titelblatt) from Stadtnacht (City Night) http://www.moma.org/collection/works/20285
The Louis E. Stern Collection
November 11, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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Das Karussell, from "Jahrmarkt" https://collections.artsmia.org/art/106307/
carousel scene; woman in dress on boar; two couples in circular seat; child on horse; carved posts with faces; two men watching the ride in foreground; number seven embossed into lower center of window mat In "Jahrmarkt" ("Annual Fair"), Max Beckmann imagines the world as a traveling carnival teeming with an eclectic cast of actors, dancers, and circus entertainers who perform in the theater of life. Beckmann casts himself as a carnival barker in the series’ opening plate, ringing a small bell to announce the show, and cajoling viewers to enter the Circus Beckmann, a curious realm of outsiders and misfits. Many of the protagonists are friends and acquaintances of the artist; he even includes his wife Minna in the series, who famously appears along with Beckmann balancing on a tightrope. As the scenes of the portfolio unfold, a pageant of players takes the stage: a tall man, a sharpshooter, a snake charmer, exotic dancers, musicians, and other circus entertainers perform in succession. In one plate from the series, Beckmann presents a carousal crowded with a diverse lot of humanity, an apt metaphor for the apparent aimlessness of life. The series was inspired in part by Beckmann’s visits to the Prater, a Viennese amusement park, where he observed the performers and visitors and sketched them from life. Justly celebrated for its incisive observations on the human condition, "Jahrmarkt" is a brilliant example of Beckmann’s mature graphic style and seminal publication of German Expressionism.
November 11, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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The Sermon on the Mount (Die Bergpredigt) from Six Lithographs to the New Testament (Sechs Lithographien zum Neuen Testament) http://www.moma.org/collection/works/70987
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November 10, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Brother and sister https://www.wikiart.org/en/max-beckmann/brother-and-sister-1933
Brother and sister
November 10, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Society 1915 (Gesellschaft 1915) http://www.moma.org/collection/works/71574
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November 10, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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Portrait of Morton D. May https://www.slam.org/collection/objects/13450/
Portrait of Morton D. May
November 10, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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Self-Portrait, plate 1 from the portfolio “Hell” https://www.slam.org/collection/objects/39466/
Self-Portrait, plate 1 from the portfolio “Hell”
November 10, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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I Don't Want to Eat My Soup (Ich esse meine Suppe nicht) https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/62936
I Don't Want to Eat My Soup (Ich esse meine Suppe nicht)
November 9, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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The Negro (Der Neger) from Annual Fair (Jahrmarkt) http://www.moma.org/collection/works/70594
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November 9, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Self-Portrait http://www.moma.org/collection/works/81517
Gift of Curt Valentin
November 9, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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Portrait of Minna Beckmann-Tube https://www.wikiart.org/en/max-beckmann/not-detected-259758
Portrait of Minna Beckmann-Tube
November 9, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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Party in Paris https://www.wikiart.org/en/max-beckmann/party-in-paris-1947
Party in Paris
November 9, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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plate 1: Self-Portrait https://www.slam.org/collection/objects/39899/
plate 1: Self-Portrait
November 8, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Women at the Butcher (Frauen beim Fleischer) http://www.moma.org/collection/works/66475
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November 8, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Three Women in the Studio https://www.slam.org/collection/objects/13422/
Three Women in the Studio
November 8, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Street II, Female Head (Strasse II, Frauenkopf) http://www.moma.org/collection/works/60903
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November 8, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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The Baptism of Christ (Taufe Christi) from Six Lithographs to the New Testament (Sechs Lithographien zum Neuen Testament) http://www.moma.org/collection/works/67041
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November 8, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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Night (Die Nacht) from Trip to Berlin 1922 (Berliner Reise 1922) http://www.moma.org/collection/works/66647
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Fund
November 7, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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The Beggars (Die Bettler) https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/70668
The Beggars (Die Bettler)
November 7, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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The Negro, plate 6 of portfolio “Annual Fair” https://www.slam.org/collection/objects/39540/
The Negro, plate 6 of portfolio “Annual Fair”
November 7, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Second Illustration for Chapter One (Zweite Illustration zu Kapitel Eins) from Die Fürstin (The Duchess) http://www.moma.org/collection/works/13621
Gift of Mrs. Bertha M. Slattery
November 7, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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Night (Die Nacht) http://www.moma.org/collection/works/66493
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November 7, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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Self-Portrait with Stylus (Selbstbildnis mit Griffel) from Faces (Gesichter) http://www.moma.org/collection/works/63518
Gift of Edgar J. Kaufmann, Jr.
November 6, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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Dead Russian https://www.artic.edu/artworks/105059/
Restricted gift of Eugene Solow with the Olivia Shaler Swan Fund and the Print and Drawing Fund #1
November 6, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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The Last Ones, plate 10 from the portfolio... https://www.slam.org/collection/objects/18084/
The Last Ones, plate 10 from the portfolio...
November 6, 2025 at 1:54 PM