Max Beckmann
Tegeler Freibad [Swimming at Lake Tegel]
About this artwork
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title:Tegeler Freibad [Swimming at Lake Tegel]
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accession number:GMA 2925
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materials:Lithograph on paper (9/40)
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date created:Dated 1911
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measurements:31.50 x 34.70 cm (paper 36.40 x 44.40 cm)
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credit line:Purchased 1984
Max Beckmann
Max Beckmann
Beckmann was born in Leipzig. He studied in Weimar and Paris before settling in Berlin. At the outbreak of war he volunteered for the medical corps, but in 1915 suffered a nervous breakdown and was later discharged. After seeing the devastating effects of the war on the people of Germany…