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The mad square: Prof Dr Carla Schulz-Hoffmann on Max Beckmann

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Prof Dr Carla Schulz-Hoffmann is the deputy director general of Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen and the chief curator at Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, in Germany.

In August 2011 she visited the AGNSW for the exhibition The mad square: modernity in German art 1910–37. Here, she talks about the artist Max Beckmann and his painting The trapeze, 1923, which is featured in the exhibition.