Name: MAX BECKMANN (1884-1950)
Brand: Holzbrücke ('Wooden Bridge')
Price: 700.00 GBP
Availability: InStock

MAX BECKMANN (1884-1950)
Holzbrücke ('Wooden Bridge')
drypoint
1922
on wove paper
signed in pencil
a very good, stong impression, printing with much burr
from the edition of 150 published by Arndt Beyer, Leipzig, 1922, in the portfolio of the Zweite Jahresgabe des Kreises der graphischen Künstler und Sammler
(there was also a deluxe edition of 25 on Japan and an unsigned edition of one hundred)
with wide margins, probably the full sheet
some mount- and light-staining
Plate 29,2 x 23,4 cm. (11¹⁄₂ x 9/1/4 in.)
Sheet 46,5 x 33,9 cm. (18³⁄₈ x 13³⁄₈ in.)

J. Hofmaier, Max Beckmann - Catalogue raisonnée of his Prints, Bern, 1990, vol. II, no. 242, pp. 618-619.

Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Max Beckmann: Berliner Reise - Grafik aus dem Besitz der Hamburger Kunsthalle, January-March 1984, no. 73.
Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Max Beckmann – Menschenorchester, August 1998 – January 1999 (no cat.).
Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Max Beckmann: Zeichnungen und Druckgraphik aus der Sammlung Hegewisch, November 2005 - January 2007, no. 30, pp. 165 & 124, pl. 83 (ill.).
St Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum, Max Beckmann – Works from Museum and Private Collections of Hamburg and Lübeck, November 2007 - January 2008, no. 82 (ill.), p. 133.

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This cityscape of Frankfurt, with a temporary, wooden bridge crossing the Main River, not far from Beckmann's studio, includes a hidden self-portrait. The man in a dark suit and bowler hat just turning the corner on the bridge is undoubtedly a caricature of Beckmann himself, recognisable not only by the trademark hat but also by his large head and prominent chin.