Women's Bath (1922): Art, History and Details

Women's Bath (1922) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Max Beckmann (German, 1884–1950).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

This depiction of a crowded women’s bathhouse poses the locale not as a site of erotic encounters, but as a performative circus of urban life. Max Beckmann’s cast of characters share unavoidable physical proximity in a packed, flattened space, where a fully stretched woman dives improbably from above. Beckmann was younger than the founding generation of Expressionists. He came to printmaking after serving in World War I and suffering a nervous breakdown in 1915.

Object facts

• Title: Women's Bath
• Date: 1922
• Creator attribution: Max Beckmann (German, 1884–1950)
• Culture: Germany, 20th century
• Type: Print
• Technique: drypoint
• Dimensions: Sheet: 53 x 38 cm (20 7/8 x 14 15/16 in.); Plate: 43.3 x 28.7 cm (17 1/16 x 11 5/16 in.)
• Collection: PR - Drypoint
• Department: Prints
• Accession number: 1959.293

Collection credit

Anonymous gift in memory of Paul O. Cartun

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