Neue Galerie
1048 Fifth Ave
212.628.6200
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Max Beckmann, Self-Portrait with Horn
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July 24, 2008 – Sep 1, 2008
Mondays (11am–6pm)
Thursdays (11am–6pm)
Fridays (11am–9pm)
Saturdays–Sundays (11am–6pm)
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- Price
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$15
With his wooden figures and unsettling portraits of Weimar Germany's luxuriant high society, Max Beckmann classified his own work as a different brand of expressionism. This exhibit at the Neue Galerie celebrates one of the German artist's most influential works, 1938's Self-Portrait with Horn. Painted in the heat of WWII, shortly after Beckmann fled Nazi Germany for Amsterdam, the piece captures the displaced artist's complex spirit, expressing a combination of extreme wariness and determined defiance in the darkest of times. It's a far cry from Beckmann's tuxedo-sporting self-portrait ten years earlier.
