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Max Beckmann (Germany) 1884-1950 |  ARTIST PROFILE
German expressionist painter and printmaker, whose works convey his pessimistic view of society. Born in Leipzig, he was trained at the Weimar Academy of Art and worked at first in an impressionist style. His horrifying experience as a medical corpsman in World War I (1914-1918) led him to produce highly
dramatic and energetic paintings characterized by heavy outlines, areas of harsh color, and an unrelenting savagery. Like the work of the New Objectivity movement, his paintings expressed social criticism of postwar Germany. Beckmann's dismay at the rise of the Nazi Party (see National Socialism)
in the 1930s was reflected in nine triptychs, huge, grimly realistic figural allegories in strident hues, such as Departure (1932-1933, Museum of Modern Art, New York City). Departure was painted just after the Nazis ousted Beckmann from his art professorship at the Städel School of Art in Frankfurt
as a "degenerate." In 1937, on hearing that his work would be included in the Nazi Degenerate Art Exhibition, he immigrated to Amsterdam, and in 1947 he went to the United States. He taught at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, from 1947 to 1949, then moved to New York City, where he
died the following year.
"Beckmann, Max," Microsoft® Encarta® Online Encyclopedia 2001
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RELATED EXHIBITIONS
 Birmingham : Graphic Art and the Great War, featuring works by Beckmann and Schiele
Hamburg : Picasso, Beckmann, Nolde and Modernity
London : German Masters and French Impressionists of the 19th and early 20th century at the National Gallery
Vancouver : Prints and Drawings of the Weimar Republic
Washington : German Masters and French Impressionists of the 19th and early 20th century
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ARTIST WORKS
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 | | Title: | Afternoon | | Medium: | 1946, dimensions 90×133cm, Oil on canvas | | Exhibited at: | Museum am Ostwall | |
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 | | Title: | Portrait of Friedrich Battenberg | | Medium: | 1920, dimensions 97×48cm, | | Exhibited at: | Sprengel Museum | |
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 | | Title: | Self portrait in Tuxedo | | Medium: | 1927, dimensions 141×96cm, Oil on canvas | | Exhibited at: | Busch-Reisinger Museum | |
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 | | Title: | Self portrait with red scarf | | Medium: | 1917, dimensions 80×60cm, Oil on canvas | | Exhibited at: | Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart | |
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