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Max Beckmann

Max Beckmann (1884 - 1950) was active/lived in Missouri / Germany.  Max Beckmann is known for Expressionist painting, printmaking, nazi degenerate art.

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BECKMANN, MAX 

Max Beckmann was a German  Expressionist painter worthy of inclusion in a great tradition - the tradition of anguished German mysticism, which first flowered in the Middle Ages.  His highly personal style reflected the misery of contemporary events in Germany.

Beckmann was born in Leipzig in 1884, the youngest of three children.  His father, a grain merchant, died when Beckmann was only ten years old.  By the age of fifteen, after several years of boarding school and over his family's objections, he decided that his destiny lay as a painter.  After failing the entrance exam for the Konigliche Akademie der Bildenden Kunste in Dresden, he was accepted by the Grossherzogliche Sachsische Kunstschule in Weimar in 1900.  The School provided him with an academic art education, whereby he learned to draw from antique sculpture as well as from live models.  At school, he met Minna Tube, a fellow artist whom he married in 1906   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 8978 characters.]  Artist bio

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