print
- Museum number
- 1982,0724.27.17
- Title
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Object: Prosit Neujahr 1917 (Happy New Year 1917)
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Series: Gesichter (Faces)
- Description
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Plate 17: Happy New Year 1917; group of figures blowing horns, man with eyepatch r. 1918
Drypoint, on oriental paper
- Production date
- 1918
- Dimensions
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Height: 238 millimetres
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Width: 296 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This is plate 17 of 'Gesichter' (see Curator's Comments for 1978,1216.5). Lili von Braunbehrens identified the eye-patched figure in the lower right as Ernst Guthmann, who was wounded in the war and wore a black bandage across half his face to hide the disfigurement. Hofmaier suggests that the setting for this scene may be the a private infirmary for officers known as the 'Hotel Löw'.
For a commentary concerning the series see 1982,0724.27(18)
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1984 May-Jul, London, Tate Gallery, 'Beckmann's Carnival'
1984/5 Sept-Jan, BM, 'The Print in Germany 1880-1933', no. 136
2003 Feb-May, London, Tate Modern, 'Max Beckmann'
- Acquisition date
- 1982
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1982,0724.27.17