Two Auto Officers, plate 15 from the portfolio ‘Faces’
1915
Max Beckmann served as a medical orderly during World War I, and the horrors he witnessed poured into this haunting 1915 etching. Two officers stare out with hollow, mask-like faces — one confronting us head-on with dead-eyed intensity, the other turned in profile as if whispering a dark secret. The scratchy, nervous lines give their skin an almost trembling quality, capturing not what these men looked like, but what war did to the human soul. This piece is part of his 'Faces' portfolio, a raw visual diary of a generation shattered by conflict.
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