About this artwork
Although Max Beckmann did not take a clear stand on the November Revolution (1918), in this image he seems to have been supporting the revolutionaries, just as he appeared to mourn Rosa Luxemburg as a revolutionary martyr in the fourth plate of this series. That said, the print shares the cramped and awkward space and the schematic and blunt depiction of forms and male types that make the image less than an unambiguous heroic work. As Beckmann stated, in general he preferred the role of the observer.
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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 Last Ones, plate ten 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 × 47.3 cm (26 7/16 × 18 5/8 in.); Sheet: 86.8 × 61.3 cm (34 3/16 × 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
- 1989.685.10
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Copyright
- © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
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