Große Operation

1914

Imagine the stress of an ER, but make it 1914 and add a world war. Max Beckmann drew this chaotic surgical scene after serving as a medical orderly, so he wasn't guessing at the panic—he lived it. You've got nurses in caps swarming a patient on a table, while a central figure looks absolutely exhausted and distressed. The scratchy, frantic lines are classic Expressionism, a movement that ditched realistic beauty to show raw emotion. Beckmann wanted to capture the ugly reality of human suffering and the chaos of the operating theater.

Technique: Lithograph
Material: Paper

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