Max Beckmann

Feb 12, 1884 - Dec 27, 1950

Max Carl Friedrich 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. Even when dealing with light subject matter like circus performers, Beckmann often had an undercurrent of moodiness or unease in his works. By the 1930s, his work became more explicit in its horrifying imagery and distorted forms with combination of brutal realism and social criticism, coinciding with the rise of nazism in Germany.
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“Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play.”

Max Beckmann
Feb 12, 1884 - Dec 27, 1950
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