The bar in the Hotel Eden was a popular meeting place for Berlin's artistic and literary crowd in the 1920s. Tightly compressed into this angular composition, the patrons stare away from each other blankly, reflecting the alienation Beckmann perceived in Berlin's café society.
Gallery label from German Expressionism: The Graphic Impulse, March 27–July 11, 2011.
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Curt Valentin, New York; sold through Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, February 1948; to The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1948
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