Max Backmann The Merry-go-Round 1922
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Author: Beckmann, Max
Title: Das Karussell (Merry-Go-Round)
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Date Published: 1922
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Dry point etching. Impression size 29x25.7 cm (11½x10¼") on larger sheet, approximately 51.5x38 cm (20¼x15"). One of 125 on wove paper.
Signed in pencil at lower right, embossed stamp in margin beneath signature. Plate 7 from Beckmann's 1922 portfolio Jahrmarkt (Annual Fair). Glaser 172; Gallwitz 169; Hofmaier 197 II B. Provenance: The estate of Aaron Sopher, Baltimore artist and associate of Max Beckmann and George Grosz. Max Beckmann (German, 1884-1950) was a painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor, and writer. Although he is classified as an Expressionist artist, he rejected both the term and the movement. Beckmann achieved great success during the years of the Weimar Republic but his fortunes changed with the rise to power of the Third Reich. His work was considered degenerate by Adolph Hitler and Beckmann was dismissed from his teaching position at the Art School in Frankfurt. He left Germany for the Netherlands and later the United States.
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