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Max Carl Friedrich Beckmann (February 12, 1884 – December 27, 1950) 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. [1]
Max Beckmann. German Painter, Printmaker, and Draftsman. Born: February 21, 1884 - Leipzig, Germany. Died: December 27, 1950 - New York, New York, USA. Movements and Styles: Expressionism. , New Objectivity. , Degenerate Art.
Max Carl Friedrich Beckmann (February 12, 1884 – December 27, 1950) 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.
Max Beckmann German. 1946–49. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 601. As a child growing up in Leipzig, Germany, Beckmann was especially fond of illustrating imaginative journeys. In The Beginning, Beckmann looks back to his childhood with fondness and humor.
Max Beckmann (born February 12, 1884, Leipzig, Germany—died December 27, 1950, New York, New York, U.S.) was a German Expressionist painter and printmaker whose works are notable for the boldness and power of their symbolic commentary on the tragic events of the 20th century.
Beckmann was recognized as one of the leading artists of his generation practicing in a new realist style termed Neue Sachlichkeit, or New Objectivity. He was prominently featured in Gustav Hartlaub’s seminal survey on the Neue Sachlichket held at the Kunsthalle Mannheim in 1924.
Max Beckmann. German, 1884–1950. Starr Figura, German Expressionism: The Graphic Impulse, New York, The Museum of Modern Art, 2011. Painter, printmaker. Known for probing the human condition in portraits, self-portraits, and enigmatic, allegorical tableaus.
Max Beckmann was one of the most foremost German artists of the twentieth century. A solitary and independent-minded man, he developed an expressionistic style with a completely personal language far removed from any of the trends to which his contemporaries subscribed.
In December 1950, the German Expressionist Max Beckmann set out from his Manhattan apartment to see his Self-Portrait in Blue Jacket, on view at The Met, when he suffered a fatal heart attack.
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