German artist Max Beckmann is often regarded as interwar Germany’s foremost apostle of despair. Yet while he emphasized his own apolitical character, his work was also the product of a spiritual foreboding that never escaped politics. Max Beckmann, Selbstbildnis auf Grün mit grünem Hemd [Self -portr.
Max Beckmann, Selbstbildnis auf Grün mit grünem Hemd [Self -portr.