| Style | Expressionism |
| Lived | February 12, 1884 - December 28, 1950 ( 20th century ) |
| Nationality | Germany |
| Biography |
Max Beckmann Biography |
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Max Beckmann is famous for his many self portraits such as 'Self-Portrait as a Nurse', 'Self-Portrait with a Cigarette' and 'Self-Portrait in Tuxedo'. Other paintings include 'The Tempest', 'Paris Society' and 'Still Life with Three Skulls'.
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| Quote | "Painting is a very difficult thing. It absorbs the whole man, body and soul, thus have I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life."
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Although he is classified as an expressionist, Max Beckmann rejected both the term and the movement during his lifetime. However Beckmann was a member of the German expressionist group
der Blaue Reiter.
Many of Max Beckmann‘s paintings make specific reference to the particular agonies of modern times. He shows the grim as well as the glamorous world of Europe in the Twenties, with obvious yet mythologised reference to the brutalities of the Nazis. Beyond these immediate concerns, his subjects and symbols assume a larger meaning, voicing universal themes of terror, redemption, and the mysteries of eternity and fate.
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