Falling Man (painting)

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Falling Man
Falling Man .PNG
ArtistMax Beckmann
Year1950
MediumOil on canvas
LocationNational Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

Falling Man is an oil on canvas painting by the German artist Max Beckmann. The work was created during the final year of his life when he was living in the United States, since he had left the Netherlands, in 1947. The painting is in the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C.[1]

The work is considered eerily predictive of the jumpers and other doomed people falling from the World Trade Center Towers on September 11, 2001 in New York, where the painting was made, on a similar setting to the painting, clear blue day.[2]

Falling Man is said to be preceded in Beckmann's opus by some of the drawings he did for his 1943–44 illustration of Goethe's Faust II which contains multiple images of falling men.[3][4]

The painting was included in the 2016–17 exhibition of the artist's work Max Beckmann in New York at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.[5]

References[]

  1. ^ Klein, Lee (September 2003). "Art on the Eve of Destruction". PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art. MIT Press. 25 (3): 20–25. doi:10.1162/152028103322491656. ISSN 1537-9477. JSTOR 3246416. OCLC 39511092. S2CID 57563836. Retrieved 18 October 2021.
  2. ^ ""Max Beckmann in New York," Metropolitan Museum of Art, through February 20, 2017". AEQAI. Retrieved 18 October 2021.
  3. ^ "(PDF) A Poetics of Space: Max Beckmann's "Falling Man" | Charles Haxthausen". Academia.edu. Retrieved 18 October 2021.
  4. ^ "'Max Beckmann in New York,' a Belated but Full-Blown Homage to a German Modernist". The New York Times. Retrieved 29 October 2021.


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