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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 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 ...
Departure is an oil-on-canvas triptych by German artist Max Beckmann begun in Frankfurt in 1932 and completed in Berlin from 1933 to 1935. It was the first of nine triptychs that the artist created. The panels, according to Beckmann, are named The Castle (left), The Homecoming (middle) and The Staircase (right).
The Night is an oil-on-canvas painting by German artist Max Beckmann, created between 1918 and 1919. It is an icon of the post-World War I movement Neue Sachlichkeit , or New Objectivity . It is located at the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen , Düsseldorf .
The style of this work is a reflection of the radical transformation that Beckmann experienced since 1914, disturbed by the horrors of war, which led him to radical expressionism. The black strokes, inspired by Georges Rouault , for whom Beckmann had great admiration, are perceived as violent, very pasted, and executed at great speed.
The Wendelsveg or Der Wendelsveg in German, is an oil-on-canvas painting by Max Beckmann, executed in 1928 in Frankfurt am Main. It depicts a view from a local street and his housed at the Kunsthalle Kiel. [1] [2]
The society has set itself the goal of promoting the research into Max Beckmann life and work. The Max Beckmann Archive, headed by Christian Lenz, in the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, at the Kunstareal in Munich, collects materials and documents, publishes an annual report and organizes lectures and exhibitions on the artist.
Falling Man is an oil-on-canvas painting by the German artist Max Beckmann. The work was created in New York City during the final year of his life when he was living in the United States, since he had left the Netherlands in 1947. The painting is in the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. [1]