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Max Beckmann, 1884-1950
Raub der Europa (The rape of Europe), 1933
Charcoal, gouache and watercolor on laid paper, 51.3 × 71.5 cm
Photo: mine, taken on September 28, 2018 at Murnau Schloßmuseum, Bayren, Germany

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The countries of Europe were miles away from peaceful coexistence in 1933, as the path to the catastrophe of the Second World War began in a very concrete way with the Nazi takeover. In this fateful year, Max Beckmann, who had been a professor at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main since 1925, also fell victim to the “new era”. He responded to his dismissal without notice in 1933, and his expulsion from Frankfurt with three characteristic watercolors, one of them “The Rape of Europe”. He depicts Europe as a desperate woman, who hangs passed out and almost like a prisoner over the back of a bull and has no influence on where the aggressive, threatening animal will take her.