Paar durch ein Fenster gesehen (Distrought Couple Seen through a Window) [p. 57] 

Max Beckmann sketched this image of a ‘Distraught Couple Seen through a Window’ in pencil on paper. The window, a dominant motif here, acts as both a frame and a barrier. Historically, the window symbolizes perspective and insight, yet it also represents separation, a division between the observer and the observed. Beckmann captures a raw, unfiltered emotional exchange, where the physical barrier enhances the psychological distance. It reminds me of Caspar David Friedrich's solitary figures gazing into the infinite, or even the biblical motif of expulsion from paradise. The 'window' is now the picture frame, yet we are still looking in, voyeurs of an intimate tragedy. Such images resurface across time, each echoing the last, reminding us that certain human experiences are eternally, tragically, relevant.