Notte in città
1920
Max Beckmann channels the anxiety of 1920s Germany into this jagged, nervous sketch. A weary man in a flat cap sits in profile, staring blankly ahead while a cat sprawls lazily on the table, completely unbothered by the urban chaos hinted at in the background. The sharp, cross-hatched lines are pure Expressionism, distorting the world to match the artist's internal stress. Beckmann served as a medic in WWI and suffered a breakdown, and you can feel that trauma in every sharp angle of this drawing.
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