Max Beckmann
Portrait of the family Lütjens
1944
modern art
Beckmann painted this work in Amsterdam towards the end of the Second World War. When the Nazis declared his work 'entartet' (degenerate) in 1937,Beckmann fled to the Netherlands. He led an isolated and difficult, but extremely productive, life in Amsterdam. The art dealer Helmuth Lütjens was one of his few friends in the city. Beckmann painted him in his home, by candlelight and a blacked out window, with his wife Nelly and their one and a half year old daughter Annemarie.
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