The Street
Max Beckmann
1916
Medium
drypoint on laid paper
Dimensions
sheet: 34.7 x 44.4 cm (13 11/16 x 17 1/2 in.) [irregular] plate: 19.5 x 29.5 cm (7 11/16 x 11 5/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen
Accession Number
2012.92.165
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...