One of the important German artists of the 20th century, Max Beckmann is known for the depth and sensuous force of his works, but little is known about his personal life. This work reveals Beckmann's experience of life from the first years of his career in Berlin and Paris through his final years in[...]
Mit seinem Aufsatz Das Unheimliche« hat Sigmund Freud als wichtigster Diagnostiker der Ich-Krise und der Macht des Unbewussten das Unheimlich-Werden des Heims psychoanalytisch bestimmt. An die Stelle einer hAuslich zufriedenen Welt des tAglichen Lebens treten RAume des Ungeborgenen und der Angst. K[...]
One of the greatest German painters of the 20th century, Max Beckmann (1884 - 1950) came to America in the mid-1940s and settled in St. Louis. There he met the retailer and collector Morton D. May. By the time May died, in 1983, he had amassed a comprehensive collection of Beckmann's oeuvre, most of[...]
In his still lifes, Max Beckmann juxtaposed vitality with death, permanence with ephemerality. Featuring nearly eighty paintings along with watercolours and other objects, this volume covers a half-century of the artist's forays into the genre. The works run like a golden thread through every stage [...]
This magnificently illustrated book explores Max Beckmann's idea of the world as a stage while also providing a striking introduction to one of the 20th century's most spectacularly creative periods of art and design. Many of the paintings by Max Beckmann show the world of the theater, the circus, a[...]