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Max Beckmann
Die Bettler (The Beggars)

1922

About the Item

Die Bettler (The Beggars) Lithograph, 1922 Signed in pencil lower right (see photo) From: Berliner Reise Series, Plate 7 Printed on wove paper Edition: 100 Condition: Printers crease in the lower left margin, not affecting image. According to Jorg Maas, this printer's crease has been on every impression of this image that he has seen.Full sheet as issued. Reference: Glaser 195 Gallwitz 188b Hofmaier 219B An example of this image is in the following museum collections: Brooklyn Museum Museum of Modern Art, New York (MOMA) Worcester Art Museum Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco Portland Art Museum, Oregon St. Louis Art Museum Art Institute of Chicago Text from Frances Carey and Antony Griffiths, 'The Print in Germany 1880-1933', BM 1984, no.153 The portfolio 'Berliner Reise' (Journey to Berlin) consisting of ten large transfer lithographs, can be seen as a sort of sequel to 'Die Hölle'. Compared with the earlier series the approach is more dispassionate, and the artist presents himself in the first introductory plate more as the neutral observer, pen in hand, than the critic and appalled participant. The plates are organised in a series of contrasts or parallels. 'The disappointed I' is the second plate, and shows a group of seven well-to-do people discussing in a circle the news brought to them by their conservative newspaper, the '[Neue Preussische] Kreuz-Zeitung' [a conservative daily endorsed by the Prussian aristocracy]. Their discontent, evident in their gestures and expressions, must be with the end of the German Reich and the establishment of Weimar democracy. The contrasting third plate, 'Night', portrays a poor family sleeping in exhaustion in a mean tenement block; the baby is given Beckmann's own features. The sixth plate is also entitled 'The disappointed', but the four people yawning as they conduct a desultory conversation are now identified as Communist ideologues by the publications they carry, which are speeches and addresses by Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht; the failure of the Spartacus rising has left them as disappointed as the monarchists. 'Berliner Reise' was drawn in the early months of 1922 and published by J.B. Neumann in April that year in a signed and numbered edition of one hundred. The two plates catalogued in Carey & Griffiths 1984, being neither signed nor numbered, must be a few spare sheets printed above the stated number in case of accident and thus left unsigned when they were not needed. None of the original transfer drawings seems to survive, though von Wiese catalogues several related pencil studies from a sketchbook. Courtesy British Museum
  • Creator:
    Max Beckmann (1884-1950, German)
  • Creation Year:
    1922
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 18.375 in (46.68 cm)Width: 13.125 in (33.34 cm)
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  • Gallery Location:
    Fairlawn, OH
  • Reference Number:
    Seller: FA95071stDibs: LU14014041542
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