Artist: Max Beckmann (1884 - 1950)
Nationality: German
Movement: Expressionism
Media: Painting
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Biography:
German painter, Max Beckmann began his artistic career as a traditional painter before becoming a leading figure in the Expressionist movement. This change in approach occurred after his experience as a medical orderly during World War I. Although he rarely directly depicted the horrific scenes that he endured while in service, his work reflected the violent and painful tone of war. In 1933, Beckmann was forced to resign from his teaching position at the Stadelsches Kunstinstitut in Frankfurt and moved to the Netherlands in 1937. During this period, he began the series of nine triptychs that took him the remainder of his life to complete. Beckmann spent the end of his life in the United States teaching in Washington and New York.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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Max Beckmann, Kasbek, 1923
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Max Beckmann, Lion Couple, 1921
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Max Beckmann, Tanzende, 1922
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Max Beckmann, Family Scene, 1918
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Max Beckmann, Portrait Frau Dr. H. M., 1923
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Max Beckmann, Prosit Neujahr, 1917
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Max Beckmann, Schiessbude (shooting Gallery), 1921
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Max Beckmann, Garderobe, 19th - 20th century
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Max Beckmann, Portrait Of Frau H. M. (Naila), 1923
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Max Beckmann, Head Of A Woman, 19th - 20th century
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Max Beckmann, Circus Group, 19th - 20th century
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Max Beckmann, Portrait Of Mr. W. Carl, 19th - 20th century
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Max Beckmann, Pierrot Und Maske, 19th - 20th century
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Max Beckmann, Portrait Of The Composer Frederik Delius, 1922
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Max Beckmann, Six Illustrations For "die Fuerstin" (the Princess) By Kasimir Edschmid, 1917
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Max Beckmann, Six Illustrations For "die Fuerstin" (the Princess) By Kasimir Edschmid, 1917
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Max Beckmann, Six Illustrations For "die Fuerstin" (the Princess) By Kasimir Edschmid, 1917
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Max Beckmann, Six Illustrations For "die Fuerstin" (the Princess) By Kasimir Edschmid, 1917
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Max Beckmann, Six Illustrations For "die Fuerstin" (the Princess) By Kasimir Edschmid, 1917
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Max Beckmann, Six Illustrations For "die Fuerstin" (the Princess) By Kasimir Edschmid, 1917
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Max Beckmann, Mord (shakespeare Vision), 19th - 20th century
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Max Beckmann, German, 1884-1950 The Tempest 1947-49 Oil on paperboard mounted on plywood 179.4 x
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Artist: Max Beckmann Title: Blind Man"s Buff Date: 1945 Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: H.81-1/4
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Artist: Max Beckmann Title: The Skaters Date: 1932 Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: H.50-1/2 x
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Artist: artist unknown Title: Self Portrait with Stiff Hat Date: 1921 Medium: etching Dimensions: H.12-9/16
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Artist: Max Beckmann Title: Self-Portrait Date: 1919 Medium: drypoint Dimensions: H.9-1/8 x W.7-1/2 in. Credit
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Max Beckmann, Die Bettler (The Beggars), no. 7 from the portfolio, Berliner Reise ( Trip to Berlin) (Berlin: J.B. Neumann, 1922), 1922
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Beginning, 1949 Max Beckmann (German, 1884-1950)Oil on canvas; H. 69, W. 125-1/2 in. (175.3 x
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Max Beckmann - The Skaters 1932 oil on canvas Minneapolis Institute of Arts German
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Max Beckmann - Young Men by the Sea 1943 oil on canvas Saint Louis Art Museum German
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Max Beckmann - Self-Portrait 1937 oil on canvas The Art Institute of Chicago German
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Max Beckmann - Departure 1932 oil on canvas The Museum of Modern Art German
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Max Beckmann, German, 1884-1950 Das Martyrium (from the series "Die Hölle") The Martyrdom (from the
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Max Beckmann - Self-Portrait in Bowler Hat 1921 drypoint Saint Louis Art Museum German
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Max Beckmann, German, 1884-1950 Shrimp Fisherman 1945 Watercolor over graphite on paper Sheet: 51 x
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Max Beckmann - The Descent from the Cross 1917 oil on canvas The Museum of Modern Art German
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Max Beckmann - Family Picture 1920 oil on canvas The Museum of Modern Art German
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Max Beckmann - Self-Portrait with a Cigarette 1923 oil on canvas The Museum of Modern Art German
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Max Beckmann - Weeping Woman 1914 drypoint The Museum of Modern Art German
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Max Beckmann - Blind Man's Buff 1945 oil on canvas Minneapolis Institute of Arts German

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (21)
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Sprengel Museum: Theo Garve - Paintings and Coloured Pictures
The artist was born on 21 November, 1902 in Offenbach. After completing an apprenticeship as an engine-fitter, he attended at first the Offenbach and then the Frankfurt School of Arts and Crafts. His first attempts at painting were ...
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Max Beckmann Prints
The rawness of emotions and compressed spaces of these kaleidoscopic images - ranging from images of operating rooms to merry-go-rounds, they contain the seeds of Beckmann's later oeuvre and often reflect his grow...
Seattle Art Museum: Anselm Kiefer and Germanic Tradition
This exhibition combines paintings, works on paper, and sculpture from SAMs permanent collection along with key loans. The other artists include Max Beckmann, Josef Breitenbach, Marcel Breuer, Lyonel Feininger, Markus Lüpertz, Albert Renger-Patzs...
Metropolitan Museum of Art: About Face: Selections from the Department of Prints and Illustrated Books
Contemporary artists have found increasingly inventive and conceptual approaches to this traditional genre. This exhibition of approximately fifty works draws from the Museum's unparalleled holdings of modern and contemporary prints and...
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery: KINGDOM OF THE SOUL: GERMAN SYMBOLIST ART EXHIBITION (1870-1920)
The exhibition of over 180 paintings, drawings and sculptures contains many previously unseen works by largely unknown artists such as Georg Kolbe, Fri...
National Gallery: Spirit of an Age: 19th-Century Paintings from the Nationalgalerie, Berlin
The Nationalgalerie was designed to provide a showcase for contemporary German art. To...
MoMA QNS: Masterworks of German Expressionism
Also featured are works by artists active after World War I, such as Max Beckmann and Käthe Kollwitz, who found that the bold, graphic use of black-and-white printmaking perfectly suited their stark, socially critical imagery. Printmaking was of c...
American Art Dealers Association (ADAA): 16th Annual Exhibition to be Held at the Seventh Regiment Armory
This year The Art Show highlights a group of solo-shows that are ambitious and not to be missed. Continuing their tradition of showing a single artist at The Art Show for the last several years, PaceWildenstein will present recent works by the Abs...
Laura Mars Group: B2B and Back Again: Group Show on B2B by Jan-Holger Mauss
As model, muse and co-producer, Mauss asks other artists to depict him posing in his bikini. The resulting artworks occur within a dialogue. The more than 100 pieces produced so far not only create a multiple self-portrait of Jan-Holger Mauss, the...
Kunsthalle Zurich: Sean Landers: Text and Cartoon Works on Paper, Paintings, Sculptures, Video and Audio Works
“My original idea was to make conceptual art entertaining, sloppy, emotional, human and funny. Over the years I got so far out on this conceptual limb that I went around full circle until I was a traditional artist again. I tried to be ironic abou...
Portland Museum of Art: German Expressionist Graphics: The Bradford Collection
The Bradford collection features the work of 16 artists, including self-portraits by Max Beckmann in drypoint, lithography, and woodcut, monumental etchings from Käthe Kollwitz's series on the Peasant War, and prints by Otto Dix that convey the de...
Ketterer Kunst: Spring Auctions Begin With Modern Art on Paper in Hamburg
Nu pour Cleveland was made 14 years earlier. This signed engraving of 1932 by Henri Matisse is more than just an appreciation of femininity. It is estimated at DM 15,000 - 17,000. Another outstanding work of the auction is Marc Chagalls Piro...
National Gallery of Art: Spirit of an Age: Nineteenth-Century Paintings from the Nationalgalerie, Berlin
The museum, which opened in 1876 to house the Prussian king's collection of paintings and sculpture, is currently closed for renovations as part of a larger ...
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: Philip Guston Retrospective
Philip Guston Retrospective was organized by the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas. The curator of the exhibition is Michael Auping, chief curator of the Modern Art Museum; overseeing the San Francisco presentation is Madeleine Grynsztejn, El...
Sprengel Musuem: How you look at it: 20th-century Photography
The exhibition How you look at it. 20th-century Photography offers a chance to take stock. It starts by showing how photography has greatly increased in popularity in recent years, mainly obvious by its growing presence in museums w...
Studio Museum in Harlem: Frederick J. Brown: Portraits in Jazz, Blues, and Other Icons
In the late 1970s and early 1980s Brown emerged as a driving force in the resurgence of expressive figuration in theinternational art world. He has combined his interest in jazz and blues music, Native American and African culture, primitive folk ...
Foire Internationale d'Art Contemporain (FIAC), Paris Expo: 29th Annual Modern and Contemporary Art Fair Presents 170 Galleries from 23 Countries
This year’s fair includes a rigorous selection of international galleries, focusing on individual and thematic shows, new and previously unseen works, and site-specific installations. The fair will be divided into five sections: Solo Shows; Group ...
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard: Passionate and Obstinate: The Lois Orswell Collection
Passionate and Obstinate (the phrase is Orswell’s self-description) will feature works from the Lois Orswell Collection as a cohesive group for the first time. Orswell was a distinctive collector whose methods were unlike those of her contemporari...
HARVARD UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUMS: Mondrian Painting Acquired from the Original Owners
While many paintings by Mondrian have been damaged by overly aggressive conservation treatment, Composition with Blue, Black, Yellow and Red is in impeccable condition. For decades the design of Mondrian’s works was considered the most critical a...
Photographers' Gallery: Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2005 Shortlist Announced
The four shortlisted photographers are as follows: Luc Delahaye (b.1962, France) was selected for the exhibition Luc Delahaye-Photographs (5 February-3 May 2004) at the National Museum of Photography, Film & Television, Bradford. Delahaye'...
Museum of Modern Art: Abby Aldrich Rockefeller and Print Collecting: An Early Mission for MoMA
Beginning June 24, 1999, MoMA will present Abby Aldrich Rockefeller and Print Collecting: An Early Mission for MoMA, a display of approximately 100 prints that Mrs. Rockefeller enjoyed in her private collection, before donating them to th...

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Biographie: Max Beckmann, 1884-1950
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