This artwork is about his war experience which is nightmarish and violent but he portrays it in a cartoonish way with exaggerated figures.
Jeanne Mammen “Chess Player”, 1929 – 1930, Landesmuseum für Moderne Kunst, Fotografie und Architektur
Jeanne Mammen's artwork depicts life in the Democracy, the Aftermath of the War and the early life of the Weimar Republic.
Max Beckmann “Lido”, 1924
This artwork by Beckmann depicts himself by the sea, where beachgoers casually stroll past violent waves filled with mangled swimmers.
This a portrait of one of Germany’s intellectual and theatrical elite, often emphasizing sitters’ distinctive aspects in a satirical manner.
Herbert Ploberger “Dressing table”, 1926 Visita il Museo Correr
Attractively strange picture of a man's dressing table, complete with vaguely threatening-looking accessories, painted in 1926 by German surrealist Herbert Ploberger.
George Grosz “Street Scene”, 1925 Visita il Museo Correr
In Berlin Street, Grosz depicts several menacing citizens of Berlin with a background of the modern metropolis, a hellish place animated by greed and cruelty
Anton Räderscheidt “House No. 9″, 1921
The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last berth to be broken up, 1838 is an oil painting by the English artist J. M. W. Turner. HMS Temeraire was one of the last second-rate ships of the line to have played a distinguished role in the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. [more]
Heinrich Maria Davringhausen’s “The Profiteer,” from 1920-21
This artwork shows an expressionless businessman in an office overlooking a vast metropolis. Arranged like a still life on the desk in front of him are a telephone, an ink pen and a still-smoking cigar.
Max Beckmann, Self-Portrait in Tuxedo (Selbstbildnis im Smoking), 1927
The perceived brutality referred less to the rawness of the subject’s direct gaze than to formal aspects of the painting’s execution: the thick application of pigment and the large planes of color, notably black. Half cast into deep shadow by an unseen light source, Beckmann’s face at close range resembles a mask.
August Sander “Secretary at West German Radio Station in Cologne”, 1931 Visita il Museo Correr
