The Gold Mine Auction 3/9/2024
Lot 176200:
Description
Original “Quappi In Pink Jumper” after Max Backmann, this is an original oil painting made by an unknown artist painted in the manner of Backmann (1922-1950, German). Max Carl Friedrich Beckmann was a German painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor, and writer. Although he is classified as an Expressionist artist, he rejected both the term and the movement. In the 1920s, he was associated with the New Objectivity (Neue Sachlichkeit), an outgrowth of Expressionism that opposed its introverted emotionalism. Even when dealing with light subject matter like circus performers, Beckmann often had an undercurrent of moodiness or unease in his works. By the 1930s, his work became more explicit in its horrifying imagery and distorted forms with combination of brutal realism and social criticism, coinciding with the rise of nazism in Germany.
Size: 27 X 19″, 25 X 33″ Frame
Condition: Very fine.
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