Max Beckmann painted Departure in 1932, and has been seen as the most symbolic responses to the Third Reich. Departure foretells the forced immigration of Beckmann after the Nazis fired him from Frankfurt Art Academy. Departure is the first of the triptychs, three panel paintings that are hung at alters, that Beckmann painted.
Departure has opposing elements of sin and salvation. In 1937, an art dealer bought the painting from Beckmann.
The artist of the work is Max Beckmann. The work was painted in the 1930s. The artist was associated with Expressionism. The primary motivation for the work was the rise of Nazism in Germany.
