Not currently on view
In the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland · as of August 2026
FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG
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.
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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (German, 1880–1938) — Woman Putting on
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Émile Bernard (French, 1868–1941) — Singer at the Café-Conce
Hermann Paul (French, 1864–1940) — Mama, si tu ne peux pas g
Augustus Peck (American, 1906–1975) — Composition - Globe
Paul Gauguin (French, 1848–1903) — Noa Noa: Manao Yupapau ( 
José Guadalupe Posada — A man with a small foot emerging fro
Jean-Émile Laboureur (French, 1877–1943) — Au Luxembourg (At
Jan Toorop (Dutch, 1858–1928) — A Group of Laborers
Augustus Peck (American, 1906–1975) — Circus, No. 2
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (German, 1880–1938) — Dune Landscape w
