I recently stumbled on the charming video below which led me to the story of the marvelous exhibition MAX GOES FOR A WALK .

“A hand-drawn Max Beckmann walks through his collection of postcards, occasionally changing outfits or morphing into different objects. The hummed song to which he walks is the well-known German nursery song Hänschen Klein (Little Hans, 1899, by Franz Widedemann) which tells of a boy who leaves his sorrowing mother to go out into the world with only his hat and stick, eventually returning as an almost unrecognizable man.

Commissioned for Max Beckmann: Departure at the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany, November 25 – March 12, 2023. ”

The work is by Ellen Harvey, a British-born conceptual artist, who also created   The Disappointed Tourist, for which she has been painting lost sites suggested by members of the public.

NB: If the video fails to open please click here.