This Brush Frightens Fascists: Max Beckmann's 1937 Self-Portrait

slow art story by John Novick, Jr.

Listen to the Story: 8 minutes

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Description:

A seven-minute show on German artist Max Beckmann’s 1937 self-portrait, painted shortly before he left Nazi Germany for Amsterdam.

Via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUuU-hprE5s

Art Institute of Chicago
Modern and Contemporary Art, Gallery 395

"Self-Portrait, 1937"

by Max Beckmann