Falling Man
1950
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oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 141 × 88.9 cm (55 1/2 × 35 in.) framed: 156.85 × 105.09 × 4.45 cm (61 3/4 × 41 3/8 × 1 3/4 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CMC
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Mrs. Max Beckmann
Accession Number
1975.96.3
Art Historical Context
**Falling Man** (1950) by Max Beckmann is a striking oil on canvas painting, measuring 141 × 88.9 cm, now housed in the National Gallery of Art to a generous gift from Mrs. Maxmann. Created in the artist's final year of life, this work captures the intensity of Beckmann's mature style, characterized by bold, distorted forms and dramatic perspectives typical of German Expressionism blended with elements of New Objectivity. mann, who endured the horrors of World War I as a medical orderly and later fled Nazi persecution in 1937, spent his last years in the United States after emigrating in 1947...
About the Artist
Max Beckmann
Max Carl Friedrich Beckmann (1884-1950) stands as one of the most significant German painters of the twentieth century, a complex artist who bridged Expressionism and the New Objectivity while forging a deeply personal visual language. Born in Leipzig into a middle-class family, Beckmann's artistic journey spanned from academic classicism through the traumatic crucible of World War I to a mature s...