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[[File:Max_Beckmann's_'Self-portrait_with_Horn',_1938-1940.jpg|thumb|Self-portrait.]]'''Max Beckmann''' (February 12, 1884 – December 27, 1950) was a German painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor, and writer. | [[File:Max_Beckmann's_'Self-portrait_with_Horn',_1938-1940.jpg|thumb|Self-portrait.]]'''Max Beckmann''' (February 12, 1884 – December 27, 1950) 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. | Although he is classified as an Expressionist artist, he rejected both the term and the movement. | ||
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In the 1920s, he was associated with the New Objectivity (Neue Sachlichkeit), an outgrowth of Expressionism that opposed its introverted emotionalism. | In the 1920s, he was associated with the New Objectivity (Neue Sachlichkeit), an outgrowth of Expressionism that opposed its introverted emotionalism. | ||
Quotes: | |||
"Height, width, and depth are the three phenomena which I must transfer into one plane to form the abstract surface of the picture, and thus to protect myself from the infinity of space." | "Height, width, and depth are the three phenomena which I must transfer into one plane to form the abstract surface of the picture, and thus to protect myself from the infinity of space." | ||
And: | |||
"Space, and space again, is the infinite deity which surrounds us and in which we are ourselves contained." | "Space, and space again, is the infinite deity which surrounds us and in which we are ourselves contained." | ||
== | == In the News == | ||
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File:Carnival Max-Beckmann.jpg|link=Max Beckmann|[[Max Beckmann|Beckmann]] working undercover to bust a [[Transit drug]] ring in ''Carnival'' (1943) . | |||
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== Fiction cross reference == | == Fiction cross reference == | ||
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* [[Max Beckmann]] | * [[Max Beckmann]] | ||
== External links | == Nonfiction cross reference == | ||
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* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Beckmann Max Beckmann] @ Wikipedia | * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Beckmann Max Beckmann] @ Wikipedia | ||
Revision as of 15:50, 20 June 2016
Max Beckmann (February 12, 1884 – December 27, 1950) 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 (Neue Sachlichkeit), an outgrowth of Expressionism that opposed its introverted emotionalism.
Quotes:
"Height, width, and depth are the three phenomena which I must transfer into one plane to form the abstract surface of the picture, and thus to protect myself from the infinity of space."
And:
"Space, and space again, is the infinite deity which surrounds us and in which we are ourselves contained."
In the News
Beckmann working undercover to bust a Transit drug ring in Carnival (1943) .
Fiction cross reference
Nonfiction cross reference
External links:
- Max Beckmann @ Wikipedia