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Max Beckmann: On My Painting

By: Max Beckmann

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Max Beckmann is widely acknowledged as one of Germany's leading twentieth-century artists. A figurative painter throughout his career, Beckmann depicted the world around him with an unparalleled intensity. His art emerges directly from his experiences of the First and Second World Wars, the political upheavals of the 1920s and 1930s, the rise of Nazism, exile in Amsterdam and his final emigration to the United States. By capturing the objects and events that surrounded him, Beckmann hoped to grasp the deeper mysteries underlying human existence. He perceived and painted the world as a vast stage, at once real and magical, upon which his own life and the traumas of contemporary history were closely intertwined. "On My Painting" can give a valuable insight into understanding his work. It was composed in 1938 at a crucial juncture in Beckmann's life, just a year after he was included the "Degenerate Art" exhibition in Nazi Germany. It was read by him at the opening of the "Twentieth Century German Art" exhibition. With an introduction by Mayen Beckmann, the artist's granddaughter, and an afterword by Sean Rainbird.

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Tate Enterprises Ltd

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1849762406

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9781849762403

Self-Portrait in Words

Collected Writings and Statements, 1903-1950

By: Max Beckmann

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Self-Portrait in Words

Collected Writings and Statements, 1903-1950

By: Max Beckmann

One of the most important German artists of the twentieth century, Max Beckmann was labeled a "degenerate artist" by the Nazis and chose exile. His artistic production encompassed the realism and figural themes of his early works to the provocatively blunt portraiture, critical urban views, and richly layered symbolic works for which he is now universally recognized. Although he was a prolific writer, his written work has never before been collected and translated into English. Beckmann is known for the depth, pungency, and tremendous sensuous force of his works; only in the last twenty years have we come to learn more about his personal life. Self-Portrait in Words maps out Beckmann's life and draws attention to the occasions on or for which he produced his writings, to the importance writing had for him as a form of expression, and to both the contemporary and personal references of his ideas and images.

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444

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University of Chicago Press

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0226041360

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9780226041360

Of 'truths Impossible to Put in Words'

Max Beckmann Contextualized

By: Rose-Carol Washton Long

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Of 'truths Impossible to Put in Words'

Max Beckmann Contextualized

By: Rose-Carol Washton Long

This volume of essays relate Max Beckmann's work to the tangible circumstances of its production and reception. The essays contextualise aspects of Beckmann's early, middle, and late career by way of detailed reference to contemporary music, film, philosophy, theatre, history, sports and exile.

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Peter Lang

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3039107046

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9783039107049

Max Beckmann: On My Painting

By: Max Beckmann

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Max Beckmann: On My Painting

Max Beckmann: On My Painting

Self-Portrait in Words

Self-Portrait in Words

Of 'truths Impossible to Put in Words'

Of 'truths Impossible to Put in Words'

Max Beckmann: On My Painting

Max Beckmann: On My Painting

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