Max beckmann biography summary organizers

  • Max Beckmann had achieved a phenomenal success as an artist when, in the summer of , at the age of thirty, he enlisted in the medical corps of the German.
  • MAX BECKMANN has reemerged as an exemplary figure: a master painter and graphic artist who, in eschewing the tendency toward abstraction and.
  • Born in Leipzig in , he studied at the Weimar Academy as a teenager and subsequently made his way to Berlin.

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    After presentations in Paris and London, Max Beckmann opened in its only U.S. venue at MoMA QNS on June 26, and remained on view through September This is the first comprehensive exhibition of the artist&#;s work to be seen in New York since MoMA&#;s retrospective, and the first in the United States since Max Beckmann (German, &#;) was a leading modernist painter whose prolific and notably individualistic career spanned the first half of the twentieth century. Comprising works, the exhibition focuses primarily on painting&#;including four large-scale triptychs&#;and is augmented by sculptures, drawings, and prints. It features works from every stage of the artist&#;s career, beginning with the stylish yet psychologically probing portraits and dramatic figural compositions that marked the early stages of his development and ending with the dense symbolist tableaux he produced prior to his death in New York in

    Max Beckmann was jointly organized by The Museum of Modern Art, New Yo

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    PRESS INFORMATION

    STÄDEL’S BECKMANN / BECKMANN’S STÄDEL:
    THE FRANKFURT YEARS

    Extended until 29 August

    Max Beckmann (–) is associated with Frankfurt and the Städel Museum like scarcely any other artist. He spent the longest and most important phase of his life in Frankfurt, and it was here that he produced a large share of his most important works and developed his characteristic style. The Städel Museum has been dedicated to collecting and studying his oeuvre for more than a century. It has continually acquired works by the artist since and today has one of the world’s most extensive Beckmann collections to call its own.

    One of the artist’s most well-known and most important works, the Self-Portrait with Champagne Glass (), has recently been secured for the Städel. This icon of modern art was acquired with support from the Städelscher Museums-Verein, the Ernst von Siemens Kunststiftung, the Federal Republic of Germany and the Cultural Foundation of the German Federal State

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