Max Beckmann (1884 - 1950)

HIER IST GEIST (HERE IS INTELLECT), 1921

Edition: trial proof aside from the edition of 30

drypoint on paper

33.5 x 25.5 cm

published by J. B. Neumann, Berlin signed lower right: Beckmann

Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
The Estate of the late James O. Fairfax AC, New South Wales

German Expressionism: The Graphic Impulse, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 27 March – 11 July 2011, cat. 413 (another example)
The Mad Square: modernity in German art 1910 – 37, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 6 August – 6 November 2011 and National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 25 November – 4 March 2012

Glaser, C., (et al.), Max Beckmann, R. Piper, Munich, 1924, p. 183
Gallwitz, K., (ed., et al.), Max Beckmann Briefe, R. Piper, Munich, 1993 – 1996, p. 177
Hofmaier, J., (ed.), Max Beckmann: catalogue raisonné of his prints, Gallery Kornfeld, Bern, 1990, vol. II, p.536 cat. 208 II A
Strecker, J. ,The Mad Square: modernity in German art 1910 – 37, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2011, pp. 63 (illus.), 301
Figura, S. and Jelavich, P., German Expressionism: The Graphic Impulse, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2011, cat. 143, p. 188 (illus.)

Other examples of this print are held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis.