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Article: Max Beckmann.(Critical Essay)
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- Artforum International
- Article date:
- September 1, 2003
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MOMA QNS, NEW YORK
"Curious that in every city I bear the lions roaring," Max Beckmann noted in his diary in 1947, a few days after reaching New York from Amsterdam, where he had spent the war years in exile from his native Germany. Whatever the remark means, it reminds us that Beckmann loved the circus and identified with the big cats. In his 1940 painting In the Circus Wagon, two soulful tigers cower in a cage while a stern Beckmann, centered in the blaze of a lamp, reads the paper and hunkers over his own prey, an odalisque in pink resembling his wife. He dares the tigers to interrupt him, but he wouldn't be half so macho without that nearby tamer keeping ...
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