In 2009 Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen could add an important painting of Max Beckmann to its collection, which the artist made when he was in exile in Amsterdam. It is a portrait of the Lütjens family, who owned the painting ever since. Sjarel Ex, director of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, explains how this masterwork reached the collection. In 2010 a interview was filmed for ArtTube between Annemarie Lütjens, the little girl on the painting and Sjarel Ex.