Max Beckmann

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 Max BeckmannEdited by Barbara Copeland Buenger "Barbara Copeland Buenger . . . has done an excellent job of editing and annotating Beckmann's voluminous private and public writings."—Andrea Barnet, New York Times Book Review One of the most important German artists of the twentieth century, Max Beckmann is known for the depth and sensuous force of his works, but little is known about his personal life. Self-Portrait in Words reveals Beckmann's experience of life from the first years of his career in Berlin and Paris through his final years in the United States. This collection of Beckmann's writings serves as a companion to his art and a testament to the complexities of his life. Paperback442 pagesUniversity of Chicago Press, 19995.5 x 1.2 x 9 inchesISBN 9780226041360Artist Monograph, Art History, Essays, Self-Portrait

Self-Portrait in Words: Collected Writings and Statements, 1903-1950

By Tomàs Llorens Reckoning with exile: Beckmann as chronicler of the dispossessedAssociated with, but not reducible to, both German Expressionism and New Objectivity, German painter Max Beckmann (1884–1950) developed an individual pictorial style, using a realistic idiom filled with symbolic references to offer a powerful account of the upheavals of the 20th century and their personal effects. Max Beckmann: Exile Figures brings together more than 60 of Beckmann’s works, including paintings, lithographs and sculptures. The publication offers a full overview of Beckmann’s life and career, beginning with his years in Germany—from his first public recognition prior to World War I through the rise of National Socialism in the 1930s, when he was fired from his teaching position in Frankfurt and banned from exhibiting in public. After this, Beckmann went into self-imposed exile in Amsterdam and the United States, where he would live out the rest of his life. This book interprets the artist’s entire career through metaphors of exile, understood both literally and as the existential condition of modern man. Max Beckmann: Exile Figures examines several thematic strands of exile and alienation in the artist’s work: the loss of identity associated with the condition of exile; the modern city as the capital of exile; the parallels between exile and death; and the concept of the infinite, with its twin powers of seduction and alienation. Hardcover210 pagesMuseo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, 20198.25 x 10.75 inchesISBN 9788417173227Artist Monograph, Expressionism, Painting, Printmaking, Sculpture

Max Beckmann: Exile Figures

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: The Formative Years, 1915-25 Exhibition Catalogue

Max Beckmann: Self-Portrait with Horn

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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]

Self-Portrait in Words: Collected Writings and Statements, 1903-1950

Max Beckmann: Exile Figures

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]

Self-Portrait in Words: Collected Writings and Statements, 1903-1950

Max Beckmann: Exile Figures

Objects as History in Twentieth-Century German Art

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