- BECKMANN, Max
(1884-1950)
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Painter
- Max Beckmann was a German painter,
lithographer and woodcut artist and one of the
greatest 20th-century figure painters. In World War
I he served in a medical corps but was released
following a nervous breakdown. A teacher at
Frankfurt school of art (1915-33) he was dismissed by the Nazi regime and settled in
Amsterdam in 1937 moving to the U.S.A. in
1947. He is identifiable with no one school but
his army experiences radically affected him and
his work passed through a period of Expressionistic distortion and New
Objectivity realism,
using scenes from everyday life for subjects. Beckmann
left a large series of self-portraits.
- Source: The Thames and Hudson Dictionary of Art and Artists (World of Art)
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