Apokalypse (Apocalypse)
1941 - 1942, published 1943
Max Beckmann
Attributed to
Artwork overview
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Medium
bound volume with 27 lithographs with watercolor additions on laid Van Gelder Zonen paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
page size: 39 x 30 cm (15 3/8 x 11 13/16 in.)
accessory size: 39.5 x 31 cm (15 9/16 x 12 3/16 in.) -
Accession Number
1984.64.66.1-27
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Catalogue Raisonné
Hofmaier 1990, no. 330-356 (copy 25)
Associated Artworks
See all 27 artworks
Frontispiz: Johannes, Evangelium, Kapitel 1, Vers 1 (Frontispiece: John, Gospels, Chapter 1, Verse 1) (page 5) from Apokalypse (Apocalypse)
Max Beckmann, Bauersche Gießerei, Bauersche Gießerei
1941
Johannes, Offenbarung, Kapitel 1, Verse 12-20 (John, Revelation, Chapter 1, Verses 12-20) (in-text plate, page 9) from Apokalypse (Apocalypse)
Max Beckmann, Bauersche Gießerei, Bauersche Gießerei
1941
Johannes, Offenbarung, Kapitel 2, Vers 10b (John, Revelation, Chapter 2, Verse 10b) (in-text plate, page 11) from Apokalypse (Apocalypse)
Max Beckmann, Bauersche Gießerei, Bauersche Gießerei
1941
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Mrs. Max Beckmann, Peoria; gift to NGA, 1984.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1994
A Century of Artists' Books, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1994-1995.
1999
A Century for the Century: Fine Printed Books from 1900 to 1999, The Grolier Club, New York, 1999, no. 44
The Apocalypse and the Shape of Things to Come, British Museum, London, 1999, p. 312 (no. 12).
2006
Max Beckmann: The Watercolors Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Germany, 3 March - 28 May 2006 and Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain, 26 June - 17 September 2006.
2011
The Best of Both Worlds: finely printed livres d'artistes, 1910-2010 The Grolier Club, New York, 17 May-27 July 2011
2024
The Anxious Eye: German Expressionism and Its Legacy, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2024.
Bibliography
1962
Gallwitz, Klaus. Max Beckmann. Die Druckgraphik, Radierungen, Lithographien, Holzschnitte. Karlsruhe: Badischer Kunstverein, 1962.
1990
Hofmaier, James. Max Beckmann, Catalogue raisonné of his Prints. 2 vols. Bern: Gallery Kornfeld, 1990.
2011
Kelly, Jerry. The Best of Both Worlds: finely printed livres d'artistes, 1910-2010. (Exh. cat. The Grolier Club, New York, 2001). Boston, 2011.
Inscriptions
upper right on title page in black ink: Für Quappi Beckmann / in der Zeit der Krankheit Anfang 1944 / in Amsterdam noch einmal ganz durchgesehen (For Quappi Beckmann, looked through once again, at the time of illness, early 1944 in Amsterdam) / Max Beckmann
Watermarks
Van Gelder Zonen