The Descent from the Cross 1917

Max Beckmann's 1917 painting "The Descent from the Cross" depicts a scene of intense drama and emotional turmoil. The painting's subject, a traditional theme in Western art, is presented in Beckmann's signature Expressionist style, with elongated figures and exaggerated features. The figures are rendered in a distorted and fragmented manner, reflecting the artist's own personal anxieties and the horrors of World War I, which was raging at the time. This painting, now located in the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, is considered a seminal work of German Expressionism.