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Max Beckmann — Wooden Bridge
Max Beckmann

Wooden Bridge

1922

Architectural structure serves as metaphor in this precisely rendered drypoint, where Beckmann's linear mastery creates both physical description and symbolic meaning.

Medium
drypoint

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Max Beckmann, Wooden Bridge, 1922

Architectural structure serves as metaphor in this precisely rendered drypoint, where Beckmann's linear mastery creates both physical description and symbolic meaning.

Medium
drypoint
Year
1922
Seen at
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Related themes

Industrial, 1922, Monochrome, Bold, Expressionism, Printmaking, Bridge, Post-War, Urban, German, Architecture, Drypoint

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Cleveland Museum of Art, Art Institute of Chicago