That work, like Beginning and The Actors, is one of many (*) triptychs by this artist, who in another painting showed a man being hanged from the rafters of his home by three intruders, as his wife hangs by her wrists from a beam with her legs spread apart.
A black snake with red eyes is wrapped around a tree in this artist's depiction of an emaciated Adam with a plump Eve. This man painted an orange-haired and gray-skinned hero with a dead sea snake slung over his shoulder as he carries Andromeda upside-down onto a boat. This artist of Perseus painted many portraits of his wife Quappi. In another work, he showed a crowned figure in a blue robe dragging a fishing net from his boat through the bright blue water in one panel, contrasting with the dark interior scenes in the wings. That work, like Beginning and The Actors, is one of many (*) triptychs by this artist, who in another painting showed a man being hanged from the rafters of his home by three intruders, as his wife hangs by her wrists from a beam with her legs spread apart. After being labeled as "degenerate," this artist was fired by the Nazis from his teaching post in Frankfurt. For 10 points, name this German New Objectivity painter of The Departure and The Night.
A black snake with red eyes is wrapped around a tree in this artist's depiction of an emaciated Adam with a plump Eve.
Max Beckmann