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After enduring a "great injury to his soul" during World War I, Max Beckmann channeled his experience of modern life into expressive images that haunt the viewer with their intensity of emotion and symbolism.
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 a German painter widely regarded as one of the major figures of the Expressionist and New Objectivity movements. View Max Beckmann’s 6,030 artworks on artnet. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices.
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.
The Collection. Modern and Contemporary Art. The Beginning. 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. Woman’s Bath, 1922. Max Beckmann. The Night, plate seven from Die Hölle, 1919. Max Beckmann. At the Hotel (The Dollar), 1923. Max Beckmann. See all 72 artworks.
During the 1920s he painted many portraits and self-portraits, figurative themes, landscapes and still-life scenes. In 1925 Beckmann’s work was shown at the Frankfurt Kunstverein, at Paul Cassirer’s prestigious Berlin gallery, and in the Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) exhibition in Mannheim.
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