The 216 Artworks of Max Beckmann

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Max Beckmann - Great Scene of AgonyGreat Scene of AgonyMax Beckmann

Great Scene of Agony is an 1906 oil on canvas painting by a German painter, printmaker, sculptor, and writer Max Beckmann, classified as an Expressionist artist. It was painted on expressionism style by use of genre painting on canvas. the artwork measures 141 by 131 centimeters and is now in a priv...

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Max Beckmann - ColumbineColumbineMax Beckmann
381 x 500 cm, (1950)

Painted in 1949, Vor dem Ball (Zwei Frauen mit Katze) is an intensely evocative work which exemplifies the bold depictions of women Beckmann carried out in America during the final years of his life. Throughout his career femininity was central to his iconography.

The Saint Louis Art Museum (United States)
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Max Beckmann - The Iron Bridge (View of Frankfurt)The Iron Bridge (View of Frankfurt)Max Beckmann

The 'Iron Footbridge' connected the center of Frankfurt to the Sachsenhausen district, where Beckmann lived between 1915 and 1933. Large Bridge reproduces, incompletely and in reverse, a painting of the same subject also created in 1922. This impression is from the single edition of about 50.

Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen (Düsseldorf, Germany)
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Max Beckmann - Reclining NudeReclining NudeMax Beckmann

The theme of the nude is fairly rare in Beckmann's work. Masterfully painted, this work shows Beckmann's vehement handling of pigment laid down in broad slabs of color and in dark, chiseling contours. Beckmann has injected it with something of the unsettling quality so pronounced in his more well-kn...

Art Institute of Chicago (United States)
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Max Beckmann - TemptationTemptationMax Beckmann

One of the reasons most art schools require students to take art history courses is that artists can and do learn and draw from the past. That past feeds art, on a nearly continual basis, and often the deepest, most moving, most breathtaking, most innovative art, draws on art from past eras. Such wa...

Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen (Munich, Germany)
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Max Beckmann - The KingThe KingMax Beckmann

The king's features are akin to Beckmann's own, although no formal self-portrait may have been intended. The collar with its triangular flaps has the shape the artist usually assigned to clown and harlequin costumes, so we may suspect that the ominous scene is really just part of a play. Beckmann wo...

Saint Louis Art Museum (United States)

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