Self-Portrait with Housegable / Max Beckmann
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 1948/2.21
- Title
- Self-Portrait with Housegable
- Artist
- Max Beckmann
- Artist Nationality
- German
- Artist Life Dates
- 1884-1950
- Medium and Support
- drypoint on wove paper
- Object Creation Date
- 1918
- Object Creation Place
- Europe (continent)
- Germany (nation)
- Creation Place 1
- Europe (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- Germany (nation)
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase
- Style/Group/Movement
- German Expressionist
- Inscription
- Signed: in pencil, Beckmann (German script), l.r.; numbered in pencil, l.l.: 25/30
- Dimensions
- 53.34 cm x 38.1 cm (21 in. x 15 in.)
- Century
- 20th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Physical Description
- Bust-length self-portrait with housegable visible at left.
- Subject Matter
- One in a series of self-portraits Beckmann produced between 1918 and 1923 in which he explored a variety of guises and demeanors all intended to be reflective of what he considered the emotion and theatricality of life. Here we see Beckmann's use of the hard lines of the drypoint in the pursed lips, stern gaze, and direct frontal pose reflective of his stoic demeanor at the end of World War I.
- Primary Keywords
- expressionism
- expressionist
- gables (architectural elements)
- self-portrait
- self-portraits
- Secondary Keywords
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- components
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- enclosing structural elements
- european
- european styles and periods
- gables and gable components
- man
- modern and contemporary art
- modern european fine arts styles and movements
- modern european styles and movements
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- people and occupations
- portraits
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- structural elements and structural element components
- styles and periods
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- wall components
- wall components by form or function
- walls and wall components
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 963 x 1357
- File Size
- 112 KB
- Record
- 1948/2.21
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1948-sl-2.21/1948_2.21.jpg
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"Self-Portrait with Housegable; Max Beckmann." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1948-sl-2.21/1948_2.21.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed March 28, 2024.