The Staatsgalerie Stuttgart has acquired a monumental drawing by Max Beckmann titled *Resurrection*, measuring nearly five meters long and three and a half meters high. Executed between 1916 and 1918, it is the largest painting by the artist and a key work in his oeuvre, created after his traumatic experience as a volunteer medical orderly in World War I. Beckmann described the piece as expressing 'the terrifying cry of pain of deceived poor humanity,' marking a shift toward a new formal vocabulary influenced by the war.
This acquisition is significant because it brings a major, large-scale Beckmann work to a German public collection, reinforcing the Staatsgalerie's holdings of modern art. The painting represents a pivotal moment in Beckmann's career, bridging his early style and the expressive, distorted forms that would define his later work. It also underscores the ongoing importance of institutional collecting of key modernist pieces for cultural heritage and scholarship.