Family Picture

Beckmann, Max

dc.creator	Beckmann, Max	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2007-11-02T18:15:52Z
dc.date.available	2007-11-02T18:15:52Z
dc.identifier	104862	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/22376	en_US
dc.description	"Even life in the circle of Beckmann's family yielded no relief from anxiety. In Family Picture six disparate people are compressed into a small, crowded, low-ceilinged room. The artist himself, clutching a horn and wearing bright yellow shoes, lies on a narrow piano bench. Next to him stands his wife, whose grey face is reflected in an oval mirror and whose state of undress reminds one immediately of the bound woman in The Night. Frau Tude, Beckmann's mother-in-law, is seated at the table, hiding her face in her large hand. A sister-in-law stares out into the room, while a servant reads the newspaper at right. Peter Beckmann, the son, is stretched out on the floor, and a mysterious, small, crowned figure enters the space on the left from behind the piano. This personage- possibly related to the mysterious king in the central panel of Departure, painted some twelve years later- functions into Beckmann's iconography as a symbol of the painter himself...Beckmann was living apart from his family when this was painted." -- From Selz, Peter Howard, 1919- Max Beckmann / New York : Abbeville Press, 1996. p.29	en_US
dc.description	full view	en_US
dc.format.extent	65.1 x 100.9 cm (25.63 x 39.72 inches)	en_US
dc.format.medium	oil paint	en_US
dc.format.medium	canvas	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	121390	en_US
dc.rights	(c)Davis Art Images	en_US
dc.subject	Candles	en_US
dc.subject	Crowns (Headdresses)	en_US
dc.subject	Families	en_US
dc.subject	Kites	en_US
dc.subject	Mirrors	en_US
dc.subject	Newspapers	en_US
dc.subject	Piano	en_US
dc.subject	Portraits, Group	en_US
dc.subject	Self portraits	en_US
dc.subject	Expressionism (Art)	en_US
dc.subject	Despair	en_US
dc.subject	Entartete Kunst	en_US
dc.subject	Art, Modern --20th century	en_US
dc.title	Family Picture	en_US
dc.type	Image	en_US
dc.rights.access	Licensed for educational and research use by the MIT community only	en_US
dc.identifier.vendorcode	MOMA-P0417	en_US
dc.publisher.institution	Repository: Museum of Modern Art (New York, New York, United States) ID: 26.35	en_US
vra.culturalContext	German	en_US
vra.technique	painting (image-making)	en_US
vra.worktype	Oil painting	en_US
dc.contributor.display	painter: Max Beckmann (German, 1884-1950)	en_US