
Max BeckmannAllemagne, 1884–1950Peut-on la contempler ?
Cleveland, États-Unis
Elle appartient à la collection, mais n’est pas présentée en ce moment.
This depiction of a crowded women’s bathhouse poses the locale not as a site of erotic encounters, but as a performative circus of urban life. Max Beckmann’s cast of characters share unavoidable physical proximity in a packed, flattened space, where a fully stretched woman dives improbably from above. Beckmann was younger than the founding generation of Expressionists. He came to printmaking after serving in World War I and suffering a nervous breakdown in 1915.
Cleveland Museum of Art