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Max Beckmann
Max Carl Friedrich Beckmann was a German painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor, and writer. Although he is classified as an Expressionist artist, he rejected both the term and the movement. In the 1920s, he was associated with the New Objectivity, an outgrowth of Expressionism that opposed its introverted emotionalism. Even when dealing with light subject matter like circus performers, Beckmann…
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culture · German painter (1884–1950) · painter · sculptor · architectural drafter · printmaker · writer · university teacher · graphic artist · illustrator · also Max Beckmann, Max Beckman, Max Carl Friedrich Beckmann, m. beckmann, Beckmann
Born 27 February 1884 · Died 27 December 1950 · Q164683
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2025· 1 entry
2024· 1 entry
The New Criterion: Max Beckmann: the later work
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2023· 1 entry
Wall Street Journal: ‘Max Beckmann: The Formative Years, 1915-1925’ Review: An Artist’s Several Selves
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2022· 2 entries
Yahoo: Max Beckmann self-portrait sold at German auction for $20.7M
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Self-Portrait Yellow-Pink (1943) sold at a Berlin auction for 20 million euros ($20
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2017· 2 entries
Hyperallergic: How the Met's Sale of a Max Beckmann Painting Changed US Museums
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An anonymous bidder paid the record sum of $45
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2016· 2 entries
Wall Street Journal: ‘Max Beckmann in New York’ Review: An Artist Finds Himself in the City
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibited Max Beckmann in New York that highlighted his relationship with New York, including 14 paintings created during his time in New York in 1949-1950
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2015· 2 entries
MutualArt.com: Max Beckmann and Berlin at the Berlinische Galerie
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The Saint Louis Art Museum published Max Beckmann at the Saint Louis Art Museum: The Paintings, by Lynette Roth
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2011· 1 entry
The Städel in Frankfurt devoted an entire room to the artist in its newly fitted permanent exhibition of modern art
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2005· 1 entry
The Museo de Arte Abstracto Español, Cuenca, exhibited Beckmann
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2003· 2 entries
Stephan Reimertz, Parisian novelist and art historian, published a biography of Max Beckmann
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The Museum displayed the series in its exhibition Max Beckmann's "Hell
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2002· 1 entry
The Metropolitan Museum of Art acquired Beckmann's Hell, a series of 11 lithographs
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1996· 1 entry
Piper, Beckmann's German publisher, released the third and last volume of the artist's letters, whose wit and vision rank him among the strongest writers of the German language
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1977· 1 entry
And is under the auspices of the Bavarian State Painting Collections
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1950· 1 entry
Died 1950-12-27.
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1949· 1 entry
Obtained a professorship at the Brooklyn Museum Art School
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1947· 1 entry
Beckmann took a position at the St
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1944· 1 entry
The Germans attempted to draft him into the army, although the sixty-year-old artist had suffered a heart attack
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1938· 1 entry
Had the first of numerous exhibitions at Curt Valentin’s Buchholz Gallery, New York
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1937· 2 entries
Beckmann left Germany with his second wife, Quappi, for the Netherlands
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The government confiscated more than 500 of his works from German museums, putting several on display in the notorious Degenerate Art exhibition in Munich
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1933· 1 entry
The Nazi government called Beckmann a "cultural Bolshevik" and dismissed him from his teaching position at the Art School in Frankfurt
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1927· 1 entry
Received the Honorary Empire Prize for German Art and the Gold Medal of the City of Düsseldorf; the National Gallery in Berlin acquired his painting The Bark and, in 1928, purchased his Self-Portrait in Tuxedo
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1925· 1 entry
Was selected to teach a master class at the Städelschule Academy of Fine Art in Frankfurt
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1921· 1 entry
Beckmann signed an exclusive contract with the print-dealer J
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1912· 1 entry
“The laws of art are eternal and don't change at all, as the moral laws don't change in human beings. [arguing with Franz Marc who demanded in 'Der Blaue Reiter' circa 1912 a new modern art, in relation to its own - changing - time].”
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1906· 1 entry
Awarded Villa Romana Prize (1906).
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1884· 1 entry
Born 1884-02-27.
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