About this artwork
This chaotic image introduces Max Beckmann’s interest in observing the variety of social types that surrounded him in the early Weimar Republic, including the wounded veteran at the right of this scene. Veterans were an ever-present sign of the war, which both left many of them crippled and led to the economic crisis forcing many to beg on the streets. Next to the veteran in this image, a bourgeois man in a bowler carries away another figure who is perhaps injured or incapacitated. Whether he is a revolutionary or wounded everyman, the crowds ignore this odd disruption in their midst.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- Max Beckmann
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Title
- The Street, plate three from Die Hölle
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Place
- Germany (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- Made 1919
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Medium
- Transfer lithograph on tan imitation Japanese paper
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Dimensions
- Image: 67.5 × 53.5 cm (26 5/8 × 21 1/8 in.); Sheet: 87 × 61 cm (34 5/16 × 24 1/16 in.)
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Credit Line
- Purchased with funds provided by Dr. and Mrs. Martin Gecht
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Reference Number
- 1989.685.3
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Copyright
- © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
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