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Fromm collected art by Max Beckmann and owned Beckmann's The Night [6] and Der Eiserne Steg, [7] which are now in the collection of the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, as well as The Bath and Lido, [8] now in the Saint Louis Art Museum [9] and Bildnis Frau Dr. Heidel, now in the Hamburg Kunsthalle. [10]
Max Beckmann was born into a middle-class family in Leipzig, Saxony.From his youth he pitted himself against the old masters. His traumatic experiences of World War I, in which he volunteered as a medical orderly, coincided with a dramatic transformation of his style from academically correct depictions to a distortion of both figure and space, reflecting his altered vision of himself and ...
The Self Portrait Yellow-Pink by the German artist Max Beckmann was painted in 1943 in the Netherlands.In December 2022, it was sold by the auctioneer Grisebach for more than €20 million (US $20.7 million), making it the most expensive painting sold in Germany to date.
Günther Franke (29 October 1900 in Berlin - 5 October 1976 in Munich) was a German gallery owner, art dealer and collector. [1] ... where he met Max Beckmann in 1921 ...
Portrait of Max Beckmann (1929) Gedenktafel, Matthäikirchplatz 8, in Berlin-Tiergarten. Glaser's parents, the businessman Simon Glaser (1841–1904) and his wife Emma Glaser, née Haase (1854–1927), moved to Berlin soon after their son was born. Glaser, born of the Jewish faith, converted to the Protestant faith around 1911.
Beckmann's characteristically harsh style began to soften noticeably since the mid-1920s, which coincided with his acquaintance and marriage to Matilda von Kaulbach, also known as Quappi, the artist's second wife. The distinctive black outline, formerly of a bitter contempt for modern society, now sets off the beautiful features of his young wife.
The painting was influenced by Beckmann's study of German Renaissance painters, especially Matthias Grünewald. It is a free interpretation of the episode of the Gospel of John, when Jesus saved a woman taken in adultery from those who wanted to stone her. Jesus appears at the center of the composition, having the adulteress, wearing a red veil ...
The self-portrait shows Max Beckmann standing with his body facing the viewer in a direct, frontal pose. He wears a tuxedo typical of the 1920s fashion and holds a cigarette in his left hand at stomach level, while he puts his right hand on his hip. In this rather casual posture and with a sober look, he stands in front of a dirty white wall.