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1944
Max Beckmann created this striking drawing in 1944 while living in exile in Amsterdam, hiding from the Nazi regime that had branded his work 'degenerate.' The piece, titled 'Laughter,' features the overlapping faces of a man and a woman with wide, intense grins that feel more like a manic defense mechanism than genuine joy. As a key figure in Expressionism, Beckmann used these loose, scratchy lines to capture raw emotion, suggesting that sometimes a nervous chuckle is the only sane response to the horrors of World War II.
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- Ink drawing
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