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2024
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- Max
Beckmann
- The
yawners
- 1918
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- Plate 7 of: Gesichter, München:
Marées Gesellschaft und Piper, 1919
- Städel
Musuem
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Beckmann executed this unusual society
portrait in 1918. It depicts the artist (top
centre) and several of his friends, among them
Ugi Battenberg (picking his nose) and his wife
Fridel (bottom right). Arranged densely one
above and beside the other on a single plane,
their heads are locked into place by elements of
a claustrophobic bourgeois living room. Only the
servant is free of the boredom that has all the
guests yawning so deeply that communication is
at a standstill. 'The Yawners' is to be
understood as a metaphor for the stupor and
apathy of society.
Acquired in 1949 from the collection of
Ugi and Fridel Battenberg
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