About This Artwork

Max Beckmann
German, 1884-1950

Paul Cassirer, 1918

Graphite on cream laid paper
504 x 329 mm
Gift of the Print and Drawing Club, 1958.15

© 2008 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Mannheim, Germany, Städtische Kunsthalle Mannheim, "Max Beckmann – das gesammelte Werk," 1928, cat. 126 (?).

Frankfurt, Germany, Kunstkabinett Hanna Bekker vom Rath, "Max Beckmann," July 9-August 12, 1955, cat. 16.

Pfälzisch Landesgeurbeanstalt, Kaiserslautern, "Max Beckmann," September 29-October 29, 1956, cat. 16.

Frankfurt, Germany, Kunstkabinett Hanna Bekker vom Rath, "Gemälde, Aquarelle, Handzeichnungen, Graphik, Plastik des 20 Jahrs," 1956-1957, cat. 20.

Munich, Haus der Kunst, "Max Beckmann," February 25-April 23, 1984, cat. 154, cat. by Carla Schulz-Hoffmann and Judith C. Weiss, et. al.; traveled to Berlin, Nationalgalerie, May 18-July 29, 1984; the St. Louis Art Museum, September 7-November 4, 1984; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, December 9, 1984-February 3, 1985.

Publication History

Stephan von Weise, Max Beckmanns Zeichnerisches work 1903-1925 (Dussledorf, 1978), pp. 133 and 214, no. 403 (ill.).

Karoline Hille, Spuren der Moderne: Die Mannheimer Kunsthalle von 1918 bis 1933 (Berlin, 1994), pp. 321 and 380.

Ownership History

Zinglers Kabinett, Frankfurt [according to Hille 1994]. Mannheim Kunsthalle [Lugt 1781E]; possibly sold by Hildebrand Gurlitt, 1942 [according to Entartete Kunst inventory]. Possibly, Mannheim Kunsthalle, from 1951 [according to Hille 1994, the drawing had an inventory number of 1951/52 while at the Kunsthalle Mannheim]. Frankfurter Kunstkabinett Hanna Bekker vom Rath (opened 1947), by 1955, [Frankfurt 1955]. Sold by Allan Frumkin, New York, to the Art Institute, 1958.