Max Beckmann

Original Price: $60.00 UP TO 20% ADDITIONAL SAVINGS FOR MEMBERS Edited by Olaf Peters This generously illustrated and comprehensive book focuses on a decisive decade in Max Beckmann’s career as one of the leading figurative painters of the twentieth century. This publication will provide insight into a critical period in the artist’s development and the accomplishments that earned him such high esteem. Beckmann’s brief but profoundly jarring service as a medical orderly during World War I led to a nervous breakdown. He assimilated his experiences and incorporated recent and radical developments in art, such as Cubism and Expressionism, leading him to advance new pictorial conceptions beginning in 1915.To many of his contemporaries, the work Beckmann created between 1917 and 1925 placed him at the forefront of the latest developments in representational painting. In 1925, Beckmann’s celebrated status was confirmed by his prominence in the groundbreaking “Neue Sachlichkeit” (New Objectivity) exhibition in Mannheim, although he later distanced himself from the term.This book will situate Beckmann artistically and historically. Essays by both established experts and emerging scholars investigate the seminal energy found in the work he created between 1915 to 1925—a period to which the artist himself repeatedly returned over the course of his lifetime.The self-referential aspect of Beckmann’s output is key to understanding his progression as an artist, which comes more clearly into focus via an analysis of these critical early years. Hardcover256 pagesPrestel, 20239.25 x 2.05 x 11.22 inchesISBN 9783791379944Neue Galerie Exhibition Catalogue

Max Beckmann: The Formative Years, 1915-25 Exhibition Catalogue

By Jill LloydSelf-Portrait with Horn is one of the greatest, most resonant paintings by the German Expressionist Max Beckmann. It was painted in 1938, just after Beckmann fled Nazi Germany to seek refuge in Amsterdam, and it evokes the tribulations of an entire generation. This book celebrates the painting and the special place it holds for the Neue Galerie. Jill Lloyd has brought her superb scholarship to bear in tracing the work's history and its importance within the Beckmann oeuvre. Hardcover84 pagesNeue Galerie New YorkPrestel, 200911.1 x 0.6 x 9.2 inchesISBN 9781931794220Neue Galerie Exhibition Catalogue, Art History, History, Biography, Painting

Max Beckmann: Self-Portrait with Horn

Original Price: $18 UP TO 20% ADDITIONAL SAVINGS FOR MEMBERS Max Beckmann (1884-1950)Carnival, 1920 Poster for the exhibition Max Beckmann: The Formative Years, 1915-1925. 16 x 20 inches

Max Beckmann: The Formative Years Exhibition Poster

Original Price: $25.00 UP TO 20% ADDITIONAL SAVINGS FOR MEMBERS Max Beckmann (1884-1950), Self-Portrait with Horn, 1938 24 x 36 inches

Max Beckmann: Self-Portrait with Horn Poster

Exhibition notecard for "Max Beckmann: The Formative Years, 1915-1925"October 5, 2023—January 15, 2024Max Beckmann (1884-1950)Carnival, 19201 notecard and envelope5.75 x 8.75 inches

Max Beckmann: The Formative Years Exhibition Notecard [Large Single Card]

Max Beckmann (1884-1950) Self-Portrait in front of Red Curtain, 1923

Max Beckmann: Self-Portrait in front of Red Curtain, 1923 [Postcard]

Max Beckmann (1884-1950) Self-Portrait on Yellow Ground with Cigarette, 1923

Max Beckmann: Self-Portrait on Yellow Ground with Cigarette, 1923 [Postcard]

Max Beckmann: Carnival, 1920 [Postcard]

Max Beckmann (1884-1950) Self-Portrait with Horn (Selbstbildnis mit Horn), 1938

Max Beckmann: Self-Portrait with Horn [Postcard]

By Christiane Zeiller Essays by Bernhard Maaz Compact, lavishly illustrated overview of artist Max Beckman’s life and work. Max Beckmann (1884–1950), the outstanding Expressionist painter, is regarded as one of the most important artists of the twentieth century. Beckmann’s work reflected the social upheavals of his time, not only in his art but also through his extensive correspondence and diaries. He was an observer, a gentleman, a loner, and a reflective witness of his age. It is especially in his expressive self-portraits that we believe we can get closer to Beckmann’s multi-faceted nature. Max Beckmann traces his artistic career and the principal stations of his life, from his years in Berlin and Frankfurt to his exile in Amsterdam and America. His works will be shown, including private photos and objects from amongst the artist’s personal possessions. They are critical of the times in which he lived and bear witness to Beckmann’s struggle with existential questions and his constant search for truth.Hardcover80 pages | 61 color platesHirmer, 20235.5 x 8.1 inchesISBN 9783777442822Monograph, German Expressionism

By Peter Chametzky “Chametzky’s book offers an interesting theoretical analysis of German art. Its sources and documentation are abundant. Chametzky’s knowledge of German art is impressive.”—Yves Laberge, German Studies Review“Compelling. . . . [Chametzky includes] appropriate critical/theoretical and cultural/historical background throughout.”—Shelley Cordulack, Millikin University European Legacy"This engaging book asks fundamental questions about the object in history and how meaning in art is produced and altered over time. Seamlessly weaving together discourses on gender, the body, ethnicity, film, mass media, and art history, Chametzky deftly explores German art from modernism to post-modernism through cogent case studies drawn from the Wilhelmine, Weimar, Nazi, Cold War, and Reunification eras. His perceptive ventures into such areas as Dada, the machine, and hitherto overlooked Jewish utopian thought provide fresh insights on German art and culture."—Timothy O. Benson, author of Raoul Hausmann and Berlin DadaThis book provides a stimulating overview of twentieth-century German art, focusing on some of the period's key works by Max Beckmann, George Grosz, Hannah Höch, Willi Baumeister, Arno Breker, Joseph Beuys, and Gerhard Richter. In Peter Chametzky's innovative approach, these works become representatives rather than representations of twentieth-century history. That is, the art here does not simply illustrate an argument, the art is the argument. Chametzky draws on both scholarly and popular sources to demonstrate how the works (and in some cases, the artists themselves) interacted with, and even enacted, historical events, processes, and ideas. He asserts the continued historical role of material art works in an era when less material forms—photography, film, television, video, digital images—have assumed the function of visually depicting contemporary history.Hardcover 286 pagesUniversity of California Press, 201010 x 6.8 x 1.1 inchesISBN 9780520260429Art History, German History

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Max Beckmann

Max Beckmann: The Formative Years, 1915-25 Exhibition Catalogue

Max Beckmann: Self-Portrait with Horn

Max Beckmann: The Formative Years Exhibition Poster

Max Beckmann: Self-Portrait with Horn Poster

Max Beckmann: The Formative Years Exhibition Notecard [Large Single Card]

Max Beckmann: Self-Portrait in front of Red Curtain, 1923 [Postcard]

Max Beckmann: Self-Portrait on Yellow Ground with Cigarette, 1923 [Postcard]

Max Beckmann: Carnival, 1920 [Postcard]

Max Beckmann: Self-Portrait with Horn [Postcard]

Max Beckmann

Objects as History in Twentieth-Century German Art

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Max Beckmann: The Formative Years, 1915-25 Exhibition Catalogue

Max Beckmann: Self-Portrait with Horn

Max Beckmann: The Formative Years Exhibition Poster

Max Beckmann: Self-Portrait with Horn Poster

Max Beckmann: The Formative Years Exhibition Notecard [Large Single Card]

Max Beckmann: Self-Portrait in front of Red Curtain, 1923 [Postcard]

Max Beckmann: Self-Portrait on Yellow Ground with Cigarette, 1923 [Postcard]

Max Beckmann: Carnival, 1920 [Postcard]

Max Beckmann: Self-Portrait with Horn [Postcard]

Max Beckmann

Objects as History in Twentieth-Century German Art

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