MAX BECKMANN (1884-1950)

The upper class society, who Beckmann portrayed in their solidly flat unmasked convention again and again, is the subject of his biggest and perhaps most sophisticated woodcut. Three elegantly dressed, cosmopolitan people are placed in the bar of the most famous hotel in Berlin. The woman on the left is Johanna Loeb with Elisa Lutz, a singer from Argentina, on the right (also seen together in the lithograph Zwei Frauen H.245). The man in the middle is perhaps one of their husbands. Three musicians are in the background.