Discover sculptor, etcher, graphic artist Max Beckmann

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: Beckmann, Max Carl Friedrich

Qualifications: sculptor, etcher, graphic artist, engraver (printmaker), illustrator, lithographer, painter, watercolorist, draftsperson, poet

Nationality/school: German

Born: Leipzig 1884-02-12

Deceased: New York City 1950-12-27

Family relationships this field records any family relationship to one or more other artist(s).: husband of Minna Tube (she was his first husband)

This person/entity in other databases

7 hits in RKDimages as artist
140 hits in RKDlibrary as subject
5 hits in RKDlibrary as author
3 hits in RKDexcerpts as artist

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Biographical information

Period of activity: 1903 - 1950
from ca. 1903

Education: Großherzogliche Sächsische Kunstschule (Weimar)

1900-1903

Active in

Parijs 1903 - 1904
Scheveningen 1928
Kraan 2002, p. 383 en 428
Laren (plaats, Noord-Holland) 1920 - 1929
Max Beckmann worked in Laren in the twenties of the twentieth century where he stayed at the Witte Huis hotel on the Neuhuyskade(http://www.devalk.com/kunstenaars/beckmann/beckmann.html, maart 2013)
Zandvoort (plaats) 1934
Kraan 2002, p. 383 en 428
Nederland 1937 - 1947
Kraan 2002, p, 382
Amsterdam (stad)
Berlijn 1904 - 1914
Florence 1906 - 1907
Pruisen (hist. regio) 1914
working for a few weeks in a war hospital
Vlaanderen (regio) 1914
working as a hospital soldier
Straatsburg 1915
working as a nurse
Frankfurt am Main 1915
from 1915, from 1917 atelier and house
Parijs 1929 - 1932
second atelier in Paris
Amsterdam (stad) 1937 - 1948
emigration to Amsterdam
Artis 1937 - 1942
wrote in his diary that he had been at Artis Zoo on Wednesday 24 June 1942, which reminded him of his visit 5 years earlier. (info artis-archief)
Parijs 1937 - 1939
in 1938-39 second home in Paris
Londen (Engeland)
Frankrijk
Southern France
Zürich (stad) 1938
Abano Terme 1939
Nice 1947
Verenigde Staten van Amerika 1947
first visit United States
Saint Louis (Missouri) 1947 - 1949
from 1947, after a delay in Amsterdam in 1948, return to the United States
New York City 1949 - 1950

Teacher at academy/university: Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Kunst (Städelschule) (Frankfurt am Main) Washington University (Saint Louis)
1947
University of Colorado (Boulder)
1949
Brooklyn Museum School of New York
1949

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Connections with other artists

Pupil of This field mentions the names of teachers or masters. What is at issue are the teachers who made a significant contribution to the development of a students, as opposed to every instructor they ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Rasch, Otto
Teacher of This field mentions the names of pupils. What is at issue are the pupils who were significantly influenced by a teacher as opposed to every student someone ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Edzard, Dietz
Gräbner, Ottokar
Maillet, Léo
Tratt, Karl Vinzenz
Influence on This field specifies the artists influenced by the artist in question, without there being question of an educational setting or servile following.: Behringer, Oskar Franz

Subjects This field specifies the various subject categories or genres that constitute the oeuvre of the artist in question. The contents of this field are generally based more on the documentation available at the RKD than on the literature.: animal painting (genre), figure, history (genre), interior view, coastal view, landscape (genre), mythology, portrait, self-portrait, Christian religious scene, still life

Medium/technique: bronze

Art movement Here we mention the art movement to which an artist belonged. Many art movements have not yet been entered, because the content of this field is still under development.: Berlin Secession, Expressionism, New Objectivity

Literature

Literature in RKDLibrary: 140 hits in RKDlibrary as subject
5 hits in RKDlibrary as author

Thieme/Becker 1907-1950 , vol. 3 (1909), p. 156
Vollmer 1953-1962 , vol. 1, p. 150-151
Bénézit 1976 , vol. 1, p. 566
Witt Checklist 1978 , p. 21
Saur 1992- , vol. 8 (1994), p. 192-199
Bavelaar 1998 , passim
Bénézit 1999 , vol. 1, p. 952-953
Kraan 2002 , p. 382, 384, 428
Ludewig/Schoeps/Sonder 2012 , passim

Vlg. Hamburg (Hauswedell & Nolte) 05-12-1998, no. 546-562 (grafiek)
D.M. Choberka, 'Expressionism in a Discursive Bind: The Bridge, the Blue Rider, and the Cultural Politics of Modernity', The University of Michigan Museums of Art and Archaeolgy Bulletin 14 (2001-2003), p. 5-33
Th. Noll, '''Adam und Eva'' im Werk von Max Beckmann', Jahrbuch der Berliner Museen 43 (2001), p. 261-302
P. von Wyss-Giacosa, '"Ein ähnlich starkes Kunstwerk aus dem Geist unserer Zeit" - zur "Kreuzabnahme" von Max Beckmann', in: Georges-Bloch-Jahrbuch des Kunsthistorischen Instituts der Universität Zürich, Bd. 9/10, 2002/03, p. 290-303
D. Schubert, 'Max Beckmanns Liebespaar in der Messingstadt. Ein Traum von 1944', Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 66 (2003), no. 1, p. 83-106
K. Soiné, 'Der Weg im Dunkeln. Max Beckmann in Berlin 1933-1937', Niederdeutsche Beiträge zur Kunstgeschichte 43-44 (2004-2005), p. 315-344
H.W. Schmidt, 'Max Beckmann. Von Angesicht zu Angesicht', Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig 3 (2011), september-januari 2012, p. 6-32
A.C. Bambi, ''Ich bin nicht Beckmanns Kunsthändler'. Alfred Flechtheim und seine Kunstverlage, arläutert am Beispiel von Max Beckmann', in: E. Blimlinger en M. Mayer, Kunst sammeln, Kunst handeln. Beiträge des Internationalen Symposius in Wien, Wenen e.a. 2012, p. 167-182

www.devalk.com/kunstenaars/beckmann/beckmann.html (maart 2013)
www.historielaren.nl (maart 2013)
www.max-beckmann-archive.org/de/info.php (oktober 2013)

Documentation RKD

This field specifies the location of the various RKD documentation materials. Most of the locations refer to our art-historical image documentation. In addition, you will find references to press documentation (clippings and short articles) here.

Archive location: archief Firma E.J. van Wisselingh & Co.
Project: Artis project
Dreaming of Holland
Marques de Collections (F. Lugt)

External links: www.devalk.com
www.historielaren.nl
Max Beckmann-archive
Lugt (Marques de Collections) no. L.4414
Lugt (Marques de Collections) no. L.4415
Lugt (Marques de Collections) no. L.4416
Lugt (Marques de Collections) no. L.4417

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