Apokalypse (Apocalypse), 1941 - 1942, published 1943

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Medium

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

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.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mrs. Max Beckmann

Catalogue Raisonné

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

Accession Number

1984.64.66.1-27

Artists / Makers

Max Beckmann (artist) German, 1884 - 1950

Bauersche Gießerei (printer)

Bauersche Gießerei (publisher)

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Inscription

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

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Beckmann, Max, Mrs.

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

1999: 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.