Cuarta clase II
1913
Created just a year before World War I broke out, this scene of cramped, weary travelers feels almost prophetic of the chaos to come. Max Beckmann uses jagged, scratchy lines to convey the anxiety of modern life, a hallmark of the Expressionist movement. The figures are slumped in exhaustion in what looks like a fourth-class train carriage, barely acknowledging the crowd pressing in on them from behind the partition.
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