About this artwork
Max Beckmann named this print after a nightclub in Frankfurt am Main, where he was staying with friends after his discharge from the army for mental exhaustion. He aptly said of this period and the chaotic but stiff postwar world depicted here: “Just now, even more than before the war, I feel the need to be in the cities among my fellow men. This is where our place is. We must take part in the whole misery that is to come. We must surrender our heart and our nerves to the dreadful screams of pain of the poor disillusioned people.”
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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
- Malepartus, plate eight 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: 67.2 × 41.6 cm (26 1/2 × 16 7/16 in.); Sheet: 87 × 61.3 cm (34 5/16 × 24 3/16 in.)
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Credit Line
- Purchased with funds provided by Dr. and Mrs. Martin Gecht
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Reference Number
- 1989.685.8
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Copyright
- © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
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