Christ and the Woman Taken In Adultery.

[NNadir]

1917 Max Beckmann (1884-1950)
German

At the Saint Louis Art Museum

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. My dear NNadir!

It's great to see you posting paintings again.

This is a stunning and provocative work.

Thank you!

[NNadir]

2. Thanks Peg. I've been fascinated by Beckmann all summer.

I took my boy, a budding artist - well he's not a boy, he's a man and will be going to college next year - to the Modern in New York in July where we saw Beckmann's Tryptych "Departure," which was very moving. I was practically experiencing chills when I saw it, and then the whole family went to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in August where we saw his "Beginning" Tryptych.

These paintings are unbelievably powerful. "Departure" was painted around the time the Nazis were exiling him from Germany.

I am thrilled to see that Beckmann's work is finally experiencing the recognition it deserves, albeit more than 60 years after his death.

I spent part of the day in the Marquand library in Princeton reading some books on his life and work. They were, regrettably for me, in German and my German is no longer what it was, but it was fascinating.