Max Beckmann was one of them. “The Formative Years” is a must-see exhibition. Mr. Naves is an artist, teacher, and critic based in New York City. His writing has appeared in City Arts, the New ...

A self-portrait by expressionist artist Max Beckmann smashed the record price for a painting sold at auction in Germany when it was put before buyers in Berlin on Thursday. As the hammer came down ...

The name “Max Beckmann” evokes images of side-show stages crowded with ambiguous acrobats, Fisher Kings, mutilated women, bound and masked figures and the like, often in confrontational ...

Max Beckmann painted that same world ... including impressionism, to an artist who rendered the world with an unflinching eye and a distinct blend of realism and grotesquerie.

A self-portrait by Max Beckmann is set to be the runaway success ... is a handsome depiction of the artist that lacks the grim intensity of many of his other self-portraits. With his arms flatly ...

A real vigor emerges in this exhibition at the Neue Galerie, which focuses on the painter’s unflinching Weimar scenes. By Jason Farago Before the war (the First World War, I mean; with so many ...

The Neue Galerie’s darkly thrilling survey of Max Beckmann’s early ... by a clear-eyed virtuoso of pain. “Beckmann is not a very nice man,” the artist wrote at the top of an ...

BERLIN, Germany (AFP) — A remarkable wartime self-portrait of painter Max Beckmann will be auctioned ... features the artist during his Dutch exile from Nazi Germany. It was initially a gift ...

18 x 10.5 cm. (7.1 x 4.1 in.) - Hofmaier, James: Max Beckmann - Catalogue Raisonné of His Prints, vol. 2 1921-1948, Bern 1990, cat. rais. no. 227B, ill. Technique ...

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Max Beckmann: Departure does nothing short of finding something like the whole of the artist by viewing his career as a piecemeal series of journeys. The curators allow us to see his career as a ...

BERLIN (AP) — A self-portrait painted during World War II by German expressionist artist Max Beckmann sold Thursday in Berlin for 20 million euros ($20.7 million), a price that appears to be a ...