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Item No: 25045
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| Keywords: Woman, Actress, Book, Crown, Mirror, Breast, Expressionism, German, Figures, Dressing, Semi, Clothed, Figure, Costume, Theatre, Red, Brown, Oil, Painting, Expressionism, Expressionism, |
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Beckmann, Max (1884-1950)
Max Beckmann, Expressionist painter and graphic artist, was born in Leipzig, East Germany. He studied at the Weimar School of Art for three years, before travelling to Florence and Paris. He was especially impressed by Piero della Francesca, the French primitives, Cézanne, and Van Gogh. From 1906 to 1914, Beckmann was associated with the Berlin Secession movement and painted in an Impressionist manner. His experiences as a medical corpsman in 1914-15 were such a shock to his sensibilities that when, after a severe illness, he began to paint again in 1917 his work had an icy bitterness; a reaction to the horrors of war and the depressing post-war years in Germany. His compositions in 1920 were strongly constructed with space confined within harsh contour lines. Colour was limited, symbolic in tonality, and quite cold. His principal subject, the human being, he monster of vitality," was presented in nightmare scenes of brutally raw living. As the memories of war and post-war began to fade this nightmare changed to a dreamlike disillusion as Beckmann painted landscapes, still lifes, and portraits of bold or occasionally tender women. His portraits of enigmatic men or of himself are equally inscrutable. In 1933 he left Frankfurt for political reasons and went to Berlin, where he stayed until 1936. He then went to Amsterdam and finally, in 1940, to New York where he died ten years later. The paintings from this final phase are freer and broader in style, simpler in expression, and broader in the use of colour. His subjects are mythical or allegorical and his motifs are symbolic. He expresses with a force that is almost physical in impact, the problems of man's existence in a difficult world." |
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