NYAB Event - Max Beckmann "Self-Portrait with Horn"

Closes in 12 days
Closed Today (Wednesday)
At Neue Galerie
Media: Painting, Drawing

“Max Beckmann: Self-Portrait with Horn” is an exhibition focusing on one of the greatest, most resonant paintings by the German Expressionist artist Max Beckmann (1881-1950).
Self-Portrait with Horn was painted in 1938, just after Beckmann fled Nazi Germany to seek refuge in Amsterdam. The exiled artist shows himself isolated and withdrawn, alone on the island of his soul, as he put it. His sidelong glance suggests that he is sunk in his own dark thoughts. Yet Beckmann vividly highlights his head, hands, and musical horn, focusing our attention on his intellect and spirit. The painting reflects the artist’s abiding faith in the dignity of the individual.

The exhibition also features other paintings and drawings by Beckmann, as well as important portraits and self-portraits of that era from the Neue Galerie collection by such artists as Otto Dix, George Grosz, and Christian Schad.

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