DETAILS
- Artist
- Max Beckmann
- Date
- 1917
- Medium
- Pen and black ink on cream laid paper
- Location
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Dimensions
- 38.7 × 31.6 cm (15 1/4 × 12 1/2 in.)
- Collection
- Prints and Drawings
- Culture
- Germany
- Credit line
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Allan Frumkin
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THE ARTIST
Max Beckmann
Max Beckmann, a German painter, transformed his style after WWI, creating powerful self-portraits and triptychs that captured Europe's turmoil and rejected easy categorization.
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