The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 23, 2024
Women's Bath
1922
(German, 1884–1950)
Sheet: 53 x 38 cm (20 7/8 x 14 15/16 in.); Plate: 43.3 x 28.7 cm (17 1/16 x 11 5/16 in.)
Catalogue raisonné: Hofmaier 234
Location: not on view
Description
This depiction of a crowded women’s bathhouse poses the locale not as a site of erotic encounters, but as a performative circus of urban life. Max Beckmann’s cast of characters share unavoidable physical proximity in a packed, flattened space, where a fully stretched woman dives improbably from above. Beckmann was younger than the founding generation of Expressionists. He came to printmaking after serving in World War I and suffering a nervous breakdown in 1915.- Graphic Discontent: German Expressionism on Paper. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (January 14-May 27, 2018).Cross Section: Graphic Art in Germany after the First World War. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 10, 1989-January 7, 1990).German Expressionist Graphics. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (May 7-October 5, 1980).Prints and Drawings, 1916-1965. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 20-July 24, 1966).Year in Review - Nineteen Hundred Sixty. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 30, 1960-January 1, 1961).
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Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1959.293