Apokalypse (Apocalypse)

1941 - 1942, published 1943

Max Beckmann

Artist, German, 1884 - 1950

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bound volume with 27 lithographs with watercolor additions on laid Van Gelder Zonen paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mrs. Max Beckmann

  • 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

    1984.64.66.1-27

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hofmaier 1990, no. 330-356 (copy 25)

Associated Artworks

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Johannes, Offenbarung, Kapitel 2, Vers 29 (John, Revelation, Chapter 2, Verse 29) (in-text plate, page 13) from Apokalypse (Apocalypse)

Max Beckmann, Bauersche Gießerei, Bauersche Gießerei

1941

Johannes, Offenbarung, Kapitel 3, Vers 18 (John, Revelation, Chapter 3, Verse 18) (in-text plate, page 16) from Apokalypse (Apocalypse)

Max Beckmann, Bauersche Gießerei, Bauersche Gießerei

1941

Johannes, Offenbarung, Kapitel 12, Vers 14 (John, Revelation, Chapter 12, Verse 14) (plate, page 41) 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


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