Portrait of Georg Swarzenski

AAT Object TechniqueIntaglio Photomechanical Processes

AAT Object Form/FunctionDry Point (prints)

Date1928

MediumDrypoint

Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. Ferdinand Seefried

Dimensions15 1/8 x 11 5/16 in. (38.4 x 28.7 cm)

Object number1981.010

Label TextFor the German artist Max Beckmann, drypoint, with its burr yielding a rich, velvety line, became a preferred printmaking technique. Beckmann in the 1920s, at the height of his worldly success, worked in a manner of stark objectivity to depict the formal gravity of his friend and colleague, the museum director Georg Swarzenski.
Exhibition HistoryA Preview of the Collections, Schatten Gallery, February 15 - April 4, 1982
19th and 20th Century Art in the Collection, Emory University Museum of Art and Archaeology, July 20 - September 14, 1985
Pathos and Passion: German Expressionist Works on Paper, organized by the High Museum of Art at the Georgia Pacific Center, Atlanta, Georgia, May 14 - August 4, 1991
Style and Technique: Prints from the Collection of the Carlos Museum, Michael C. Carlos Museum, January 18 - May 4, 1997
Invention and Revival: Northern European Prints, Michael C. Carlos Museum, February 12 - May 15, 2005
Embodied Seeing: Modernist Works on Paper, Michael C. Carlos Museum, February 4 - May 20, 2012
The Eye, The Mind, and the Heart: In Honor of Clark Poling, Michael C. Carlos Museum, January 15 - March 5, 2022
Published ReferencesMCCM Newsletter, December 2004 - February 2005.
Jenny Graser, Grosse Realistik & Grosse Abstraktion: Zeichnungen von Max Beckmann bis Gerhard Richter aus dem Stadel Museum (Frankfurt am Main: Stadel Museum, 2019), 26.

ProvenanceEx coll. Emory University Art History Department, gift of Monique and Ferdinand Seefried, United States, 1981. Transferred to Emory University Museum of Art and Archaeology, ca. 1981.

Status

Not on view

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