July 24, 2008 – Sep 1, 2008
Mondays (11am–6pm)
Thursdays (11am–6pm)
Fridays (11am–9pm)
Saturdays–Sundays (11am–6pm)
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.
– Alex Adler