artist:"Max Beckmann"
Blind Man's Buff
The Skaters
Schiessbude, from "Jahrmarkt"
Der Neger, from "Jahrmarkt"
Das Karussell (Merry-Go-Round), plate 7 from "Jahrmarkt"
Der Ausrufer, from "Jahrmarkt"
Hinter den Kulissen, from "Jahrmarkt"
Schlangendame, from "Jahrmarkt"
Der grosse Mann, from "Jahrmarkt"
"Negro Dance" from "Jahrmarkt"
Die Seiltänzer, from "Jahrmarkt"
Das Karussell, from "Jahrmarkt"
Garderobe, from "Jahrmarkt"
Landschaft mit Ballon (Landscape with Balloon)
In der Trambahnb (In the Tram)
Christ and Pilate, Plate 15 from "Day and Dream"
Omnibus
Portrait of J.B. Neumann
Woman With Candle
Wooden Bridge
Portrait of the Publisher, R. Piper
Society
Small Self-Portrait
Kasbek
Group Portrait, Eden Bar
Self-Portrait
Self Portrait
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Blind Man's Buff is the most important of the five triptychs created by Max Beckmann while exiled in Holland between 1937-1947 - an exile necessitated by the Nazi's inclusion of ten of his works in their exhibition of "degenerate art" in 1937. Like much of his art, Blind Man's Buff is allusive and symbolic, inviting explication yet resisting explicit interpretation. Yet, the artist's use of the three-paneled format that was traditional to Medieval and Renaissance altarpieces evokes religious associations. Beckmann also drew upon classical sources, calling the figures at center "the gods" and the animal-headed man the "minotaur." Throughout the triptych, figures engage in sensual pleasures in a place where time, represented by a clock without XII or I, has no beginning or end. In sharp contrast on each wing are the blindfolded man and kneeling woman who, like prayerful donors in a Renaissance altarpiece, turn their backs to the confusion behind them.
Restoring a Masterpiece III: Fall 2014
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