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Max Beckmann

Also known as Max Beckman, Max Carl Friedrich Beckmann, m. beckmann, Beckmann

German painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor and writer (1884–1950)

AI overview

Max Beckmann was a German artist (1884–1950) who worked across multiple mediums including painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, and writing. He is an important figure in modern art history, representing a significant voice in early 20th-century European artistic development.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 1884
Died: 1950
Works: 122

Top works

Ewig wechselndes Theater
Max Beckmann, die frühen Bilder
Max Beckmann [exposition] Musée national d'art moderne, Paris, 25 Septembre-28 Octobre, 1968
Max Beckmann, recent work
Bekenntnis 1918

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Country: DE
Active from: 1884-02-12
Active to: 1950-12-27

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 16
Total plays: 60

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

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Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
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Quotes

“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].”
“Oh I wish that I could paint again. Paint is an instrument without which I cannot survive for any length of time. Whenever I even think of gray, green and white, I am overcome with quivers of lust. Then I wish that this war would end and that I might paint again.”
“I have never, God or whatever knows, prostrated myself to be famous, but I would meander through all the sewers of the world, through all degradation and humiliations, in order to paint. I have to do this. Until the last drop every vision that exists in my being must be purged; then it will be a pleasure for me to be rid of this damned torture”
“[it is] amusing all the same, how the peacetime life we cursed and groaned about now elevates itself with iron logic to the status of paradise..”
“Yesterday we came across a cemetery that had been completely destroyed by shellfire. The graves had been blown up, and the coffins lay about in the most uncomfortable positions. The shells had unceremoniously exposed their distinguished occupants to the light of day, and bones, hair, and bits of clothing could be seen through cracks in the burst-open coffins.”
“The trenches wound in meandering lines and white faces peered from dark dugouts – a lot of men were still preparing the positions, and everywhere among them there were graves. Where they sat, beside their dugouts, even between the sandbags, crosses stuck out. Corpses jammed in among them. It sounds like fiction – one man was frying potatoes on a grave next to his dugout. The existence of life here had already become a paradoxical joke.”

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Wikidata facts

Image: Max Beckmann 1928, by Hugo Erfurth.jpg

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Commons category: Max Beckmann
date of death: 1950-12-27
date of birth: 1884-02-12
name in native language: Max Beckmann
Commons Creator page: Max Beckmann
P8168: 3rd Infantry Division
start of work period: 1903-01-01
end of work period: 1950-01-01
Commons gallery: Max Beckmann

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Works in European collections

22 objects attributed to Max Beckmann, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

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Article

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. In the 1920s, he was associated with the New Objectivity (Neue Sachlichkeit), an outgrowth of Expressionism that opposed its introverted emotionalism. Even when dealing with light subject matter like circus performers, Beckmann often had an undercurrent of moodiness or unease in his works. By the 1930s, his work became more explicit in its horrifying imagery and distorted forms with combination of brutal realism and social criticism, coinciding with the rise of Nazism in Germany.

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