print
- Museum number
- 1978,1216.5
- Title
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Object: Auferstehung (Resurrection)
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Series: Gesichter (Faces)
- Description
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Plate 12: Resurrection; groups of figures, naked figure at centre rising towards sun. 1918
Drypoint, on oriental paper
- Production date
- 1918
- Dimensions
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Height: 240 millimetres
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Width: 335 millimetres
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- Curator's comments
- This is plate 12 of 'Gesichter', a portfolio of 19 drypoints that were produced between 1914 and 1918. In 1919, the Marées-Gesellschaft published the portfolio in an edition of 100. The first 40 prints in the edition were printed on Japan paper before the plates were steel-faced, after which the remaining 60 were printed on ordinary laid paper.
The portfolio was accompanied by a booklet, which contained an essay by Julius Meier-Graefe, one of Beckmann's most ardent supporters. In some cases, the titles of the individual plates, as given in the booklet, differ from those written on the prints themselves. Not all of the subject matter corresponds to the title of the series, 'Gesichter' ('Faces'). The final title was suggested by Meier-Graefe and adopted by Beckmann, who had originally intended to call the series 'Welttheater' (Theatre of the World).
This drypoint follows, in reverse, the composition of Beckmann's painting 'Resurrection', begun in 1916 and never completed. The five figures in the lower left of the print are, from left to right, Fridel Battenberg, Minna Beckmann-Tube, the artist, Ugi Battenberg, and, below, the child Peter Beckmann.
(See Carey & Griffiths, 'The Print in Germany 1880-1933', BM exh cat, 1984, no.143)
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1978
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1978,1216.5
