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Max Beckmann Original Vintage German Expressionist Watercolor Graphite Pencil Gouache Ink on Paper Carmel California Still Life Painting
Max Beckmann Original Vintage German Expressionist Watercolor Graphite Pencil Gouache Ink on Paper Carmel California Still Life Painting
Max Beckmann Original Vintage German Expressionist Watercolor Graphite Pencil Gouache Ink on Paper Carmel California Still Life Painting
Max Beckmann Original Vintage German Expressionist Watercolor Graphite Pencil Gouache Ink on Paper Carmel California Still Life Painting
Max Beckmann Original Vintage German Expressionist Watercolor Graphite Pencil Gouache Ink on Paper Carmel California Still Life Painting
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Max Beckmann Original Vintage German Expressionist Watercolor Graphite Pencil Gouache Ink on Paper Carmel California Still Life Painting

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Original vintage German Expressionist still life painting, by Max Beckmann, (1884-1950). The painting appears to be watercolor and possibly gouache and ink, with a graphite/pencil drawing under, on paper, attached to a board. The painting is in excellent original condition, behind glass, and in the original vintage frame. Painting is estimated to have been created in approximately 1945.    

Modern German expressionist painter, printmaker, draftsman, and writer. Max Beckmann; began his career working in the traditional style but came to be linked with Expressionism, as well as the Neue Sachlichkeit's contemporary social criticism. Known for probing the human condition in portraits, self-portraits, and enigmatic, allegorical tableaus, Beckmann initially emerged in Berlin in the early 1910s, working in a late Impressionist manner. Beckmann joined the medical corps during World War I, and served in Belgium; where he met the artist, Erich Heckel. He was discharged after a nervous breakdown, in 1915. Although he had publicly criticized Franz Marc and the Blaue Reiter’s impulse toward abstraction and spirituality in 1912, harrowing experiences of the war led him to incorporate strategies of distortion, angularity, and exaggerated color. After the war, Beckmann settled in Frankfurt but maintained ties to Berlin art circles. Focused on urban themes, especially the disaffection of postwar society, and often depicted life as a theater or circus in tightly compressed compositions, which he sometimes elaborated in portfolio format. 

More than five hundred of Max Beckmann's works were removed from public collections by the Nazis, in 1937; classified by the Nazis as "degenerate art". Beckmann waited out the remainder of World War II in Amsterdam, then later assumed teaching positions in St. Louis and New York. Near the end of the artist's life, he was a also resident of Carmel, California.


Selected Bibliography
Hofmaier, James. Max Beckmann: Catalogue Raisonné of His Prints. 2 vols. Bern: Kornfeld, 1990.
Long, Rose-Carol Washton, and Maria Makela, eds. Of ‘Truths Impossible to Put in Words’: Max Beckmann Contextualized. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2008.
Schulz-Hoffmann, Carla, and Judith C. Weiss, eds. Max Beckmann: Retrospective. Exh. cat., St. Louis Museum of Art. Munich: Prestel, 1984.
Storr, Robert, ed. Max Beckmann. Exh. cat. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2003.
Weitman, Wendy, and James L. Fisher. Max Beckmann: Prints from The Museum of Modern Art. Exh. cat. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1992.


Max Beckmann
(1884-1950)
German Expressionist
Still Life
Graphite/Pencil, Ink, and Gouache/Watercolor on Paper attached to Board
Signed lower right
Still Life
Vintage wood frame, behind glass. When shipped, glass will be removed to prevent breakage/damage in shipping
14" X 8.5" showing from behind the mat. (The painting seems to be very slightly larger than what is showing.)
Measures approximately 19" X 15" total, in frame
Excellent original condition. Very slight discoloration at the very edge of the paper/painting, as shown; due to age. Please review images. 

 

 

 

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