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Art Max Beckmann: Self-Portrait with Horn

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With his wooden figures and unsettling portraits of Weimar Germany's luxuriant high society, Max Beckmann classified his own work as a different brand of expressionism. This exhibit at the Neue Galerie celebrates one of the German artist's most influential works, 1938's Self-Portrait with Horn. Painted in the heat of WWII, shortly after Beckmann fled Nazi Germany for Amsterdam, the piece captures the displaced artist's complex spirit, expressing a combination of extreme wariness and determined defiance in the darkest of times. It's a far cry from Beckmann's tuxedo-sporting self-portrait ten years earlier.

– Alex Adler

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