Max Beckmann. Max Beckmann was a German painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor, and writer.
Although he is classified as an Expressionist artist, he rejected both the term and the movement. In the 1920s, he was associated with the New Objectivity, an outgrowth of Expressionism that opposed its introverted emotionalism.
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 humanity. He is known for the self-portraits painted throughout his life, their number and intensity rivaled only by those of Rembrandt and Picasso.
Well-read in philosophy and literature, Beckmann also contemplated mysticism and theosophy in search of the Self. As a true painter-thinker, he strove to find the hidden spiritual dimension in his subjects. Beckmann enjoyed great success and official honors during the Weimar Republic. In 1925 he was selected to teach a master class at the Stadelschule Academy of Fine Art in Frankfurt. Some of his most famous students included Theo Garve, Leo Maillet and Marie-Louise von Motesiczky. In 1927 he received the Honorary Empire Prize for German Art a
Although he is classified as an Expressionist artist, he rejected both the term and the movement. In the 1920s, he was associated with the New Objectivity, an outgrowth of Expressionism that opposed its introverted emotionalism.
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 humanity. He is known for the self-portraits painted throughout his life, their number and intensity rivaled only by those of Rembrandt and Picasso.
Well-read in philosophy and literature, Beckmann also contemplated mysticism and theosophy in search of the Self. As a true painter-thinker, he strove to find the hidden spiritual dimension in his subjects. Beckmann enjoyed great success and official honors during the Weimar Republic. In 1925 he was selected to teach a master class at the Stadelschule Academy of Fine Art in Frankfurt. Some of his most famous students included Theo Garve, Leo Maillet and Marie-Louise von Motesiczky. In 1927 he received the Honorary Empire Prize for German Art a
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