Sketches Illustrating Faust

in or after 1925

Max Beckmann

Associated Names
Max Beckmann

Artist, German, 1884 - 1950

This is a photograph of a page with text and handwritten notes. The page features bold printed text at the top that reads "DERTRAGÖDIE ZWEITER TEIL IN FÜNF AKTEN." Below this printed text, there is a faded handwritten note in pencil. The composition utilizes a clean, uncluttered layout with a significant amount of empty space on the page, allowing the text to be the central focal point. The text alignment and choice of font suggest formal or literary content. The handwritten notes add an element of personal annotation to the presentation.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    1 vol: ill: 139 graphite drawings on the blank interleaves of a 1925 Bremer Presse (Munich) edition of Goethe's "Faust" (Zweite Teil)

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mrs. Max Beckmann

  • Dimensions

    page size: 21.7 x 14.2 cm (8 9/16 x 5 9/16 in.)
    accessory size: 22.7 x 14.5 cm (8 15/16 x 5 11/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1984.64.67

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Mrs. Max Beckmann, Peoria; gift to NGA, 1984.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2007

  • Max Beckmann in Amsterdam: 1937-1947, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, 2007, 376, 386 ("Helena" was displayed).

  • Max Beckmann, Exile in Amsterdam. Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, 2007, 376, 394 ("Mephistopheles" was displayed).

Bibliography

2007

  • Max Beckmann: Exile in Amsterdam. Exh. cat. Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam; Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, 2007: 376, 386, 394, no. 92.

Inscriptions

center on title page, 3 illegible lines in graphite

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