Max Beckmann

(noun)

(1884 – 1950) 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.

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Examples of Max Beckmann in the following topics:

  • Neue Sachlichkeit

    • Max Beckmann, who is sometimes called an expressionist although he never considered himself part of any movement, was considered to be a verist and the most important artist of Neue Sachlichkeit.

  • Neo-Expressionism

    • Overtly inspired by so-called German Expressionist painters such as Emil Nolde, Max Beckmann, George Grosz, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and other expressionist artists such as James Ensor and Edvard Munch, Neo-Expressionists were sometimes called Neue Wilden ("The new wild ones'").

  • Drypoint

    • In the 20th century many artists produced drypoints, including Max Beckmann, Milton Avery, and Hermann-Paul.

  • Germany and the United States

    • Among Piloty's more famous pupils were Hans Makart, Franz von Lenbach, Franz Defregger, Gabriel von Max, and Eduard von Grützner.
    • The Berlin Secession was a group founded in 1898 by painters including Max Liebermann, who broadly shared the artistic approach of Manet and the French Impressionists.

  • German Bauhaus Art

    • Many well-known artists attended the Bauhaus including Josef Albers, Anni Albers, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, Max Bill and Herbert Bayer to name a few.

  • Experiments in Latin America

    • In Brazil, for example, the arrival of the Swiss artist Max Bill (1908–1994) in the 1950s inspired a number of concrete artists to form groups, including the Grupo Ruptura (São Paulo) and the Grupo Frente (Rio de Janeiro).

  • Expressive and Symbolic Uses of Color

    • Jackson Pollock's dripping paint onto a canvas laid on the floor is a technique that became somewhat synonymous with the movement, and has its roots in the work of Andre Masson, Max Ernst and David Siqueiros.

  • German Expressionism

    • Later members were Emil Nolde, Max Pechstein and Otto Mueller.

  • Dada and Surrealism

    • In Cologne, Max Ernst used photographs taken from the front during World War I to comment on the war.

  • Abstract Sculpture

    • The surrealists wanted to create an exhibition which in itself would be a creative act, and André Breton named Duchamp, Wolfgang Paalen, Man Ray, Salvador Dali, and Max Ernst to help h