Kleine operatie
1915
Max Beckmann sketched this frantic scene while serving as a medical orderly during World War I, an experience so traumatic it eventually caused him to suffer a nervous breakdown. Instead of a sterile hospital room, we see an Expressionist nightmare: a chaotic huddle of figures crowding around a patient, their faces twisted in anxiety and exhaustion. The scratchy, aggressive lines capture the panic of the moment, proving that Beckmann didn't just document the war—he felt every bit of its trauma on the page.
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