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Beckmann, Composition (Hofmaier 323-329), Der Mensch ist kein Haustier (after)
1937

About the Item

Lithograph on Van Gelder Zonen Bütten paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Der Mensch ist kein Haustier, 1937. Published by Éditions Cosmopolites, Paris; printed by Desjobert, Paris, 1937. Excerpted from the volume (translated from French), Twenty copies of this book were printed in real Japan, numbered from 1 to 20 and drawn by the author. The lithographies were deducted on the hand presses of the master printer, Desjobert, Paris, and all [colophons] signed by the artist. Furthermore, 100 copies were provided with lithographs on paper van gelder; these copies bear the numbers 21-120 and were signed by the author. Excerpted from the catalogue entry for the example from this edition owned by the Museum of Modern Art, In Stephan Lackner's play Der Mensch ist kein Haustier (Man is not a domestic animal), a violent revolution has unleashed uncontrollable forces in an unnamed land. Felix Faber, logical and heartless, heads the overthrow; his henchman, Peter Giel, betrays him out of love for Duchess Louise. The story follows these three main characters, whose lives remain intertwined as they make their way through the new world. In 1936 Lackner, then living in exile in Paris, commissioned Beckmann to illustrate his play. At the time, the playwright described himself as "Beckmann's student in a different medium," and stated that Beckmann's art and vision of the world as a theater were the inspiration for the play's main characters. Beckmann, upon reading the finished draft, marveled at the similarities of their ideas. The artist completed the seven lithographs, his first since 1923, shortly after fleeing Nazi Germany in summer 1937. He visited Lackner in Paris, where he signed the prints—an activity that he said reminded him "of better days"—in September. The book was published later that fall. Beckmann's illustrations, in which he gave Giel his own features, focus on the human responses to the upheaval, showing emotional scenes of love, intoxication, and destruction. MAX BECKMANN (1884-1950) was a German painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor, and writer. Although he is classified as an Expressionist artist, he rejected both the term and the movement. In the 1920s, he was associated with the New Objectivity (Neue Sachlichkeit), an outgrowth of Expressionism that opposed its introverted emotionalism. Even when dealing with light subject matter like circus performers, Beckmann often had an undercurrent of moodiness or unease in his works. By the 1930s, his work became more explicit in its horrifying imagery and distorted forms with combination of brutal realism and social criticism, coinciding with the rise of nazism in Germany. Beckmann’s mature pictures, like Picasso’s, are astonishing reminders that painting has a visceral truth to it which makes its historicity—its truth to the shared but unspoken experience of a particular time—possible. But while Picasso never really woke to the nightmare of modern history (not even in Guernica, 1937, whose topicality remains its greatest weakness), Beckmann never woke from it. The spiritual darkness of the age is an almost unremitting obsession in his work, which may be one reason he made so many of his images appear to be carved out of blackness.

Creation Year:

1937

Dimensions:

Height: 11.688 in (29.69 cm)Width: 5.313 in (13.5 cm)

Medium:

Lithograph

Movement & Style:

Modern

After:

Max Beckmann (1884-1950, German)

Period:

1930-1939

Condition:

Gallery Location:

Auburn Hills, MI

Reference Number:

1stDibs: LU1465214207592

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