From 3 December 2025 to fifteen March 2026, the Städel Museum presents an exhibition specializing in Max Beckmann (1884–1950) as a draughtsman.
Supply: Städel Museum · Picture: Max Beckmann: “Wman with Candle (Quappi)”, 1928
The Städel Museum has some of the essential Beckmann collections on the earth. His works have been collected and studied for greater than 100 years. The newest acquisition of an iconic work for the museum’s assortment was Self-Portrait with Champagne Glass (1919) in 2019. Since 2021, essential everlasting loans from the Karin and Rüdiger Volhard Assortment have been added to the museum’s holdings. Within the winter of 2025, the Städel Museum turns the highlight on Max Beckmann (1884–1950) as a draughtsman.
Round eighty works —lots of them on public show for the primary time—will doc the event of his graphic œuvre, from early sketches to late painterly masterpieces. Drawing was of existential significance to Beckmann and accompanied him by way of all phases of his work. In drawing, he formed his private worldview, creating works with pencil, charcoal, chalk and pastel that reworked fleeting impressions into significant, multi-layered compositions. The exhibition exhibits Beckmann at his most intense and artistic. Chosen work and colored works on paper additionally present an perception into the inventive course of and the interaction between completely different media.
The exhibition coincides with the publication of the three-volume catalogue raisonné of Beckmann’s drawings compiled by Hedda Finke and Stephan von Wiese. Along with drawings from the Städel Museum’s personal assortment, the exhibition options loans from famend worldwide museums and personal collections. This complete particular exhibition invitations guests to rediscover some of the essential artists of the twentieth century by way of hitherto little-known sides of his work.
