Faces, Plate 16
1914-1918
Max Beckmann created this haunting scene during the horrors of World War I, a time when he served as a medical orderly and suffered a severe nervous breakdown. The image shows a skeletal, Christ-like figure—note the crown of thorns—being awkwardly lowered from a ladder by a group of anguished, distorted mourners. It's a twisted, nightmarish take on the traditional 'Deposition from the Cross,' where jagged, frantic lines and emaciated bodies scream with the pain and chaos of the era, rejecting realistic beauty to capture raw emotional trauma.
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