Max Beckmann (German, 1884–1950)

Two Auto Officers (Zwei Autooffiziere) from Faces (Gesichter)

Date:

(1915, published 1919)

Medium:

One from a portfolio of nineteen drypoints

Dimensions:

plate: 4 3/4 x 7" (12 x 17.8 cm); sheet: 7 3/16 x 8 7/8" (18.2 x 22.6 cm)

Paper:

Cream, slightly textured, laid.

Publisher:

Marées-Gesellschaft, R. Piper & Co., Munich

Printer:

Franz Hanfstaengl, Munich

Edition:

100 (including 40 printed before steel-facing on "Japan" paper, and 60 printed after steel-facing on laid paper [this ex.]); plus 5 known trial proofs

Credit Line:

Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Fund

Copyright:

© 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

Reference:

Glaser 76. Gallwitz 60. Hofmaier 84 B b.

MoMA Number:

298.1951

Themes:

Portraits, War

Techniques:

Intaglio