Resumen de Max Beckmanns Liebespaar in der Messingstadt: Ein Traum von 1914
A paper presented at the Hochschule der Künste in Leipzig, Germany, in January 1995. The writer discusses Max Beckmann's 1944 painting Messingstadt (Saarlandmuseum, Saarbrücken, Germany). Beckmann created the painting, a beautiful, melancholic picture of a pair of lovers, when he was living in exile in Amsterdam. The writer focuses on Beckmann's individual-psychological context and the question of the interpretation of the work, and he considers Beckmann's contemporary self-portraits and some of his other pictures of couples of the later 1930s and 1940s.
