Max BECKMANN was born in Leipzig in 1884. From 1900, he studied at the Grand Ducal School of Art in Weimar. 1903 move to Paris and study at the Académie Colarossi. Beckmann lived in Berlin from 1904. In 1906, he took part in the exhibition of the Berlin Secession in Weimar and received the honorary prize of the Deutscher Künstlerbund. In 1907, the artist joined the Berlin Secession. From around 1916, Max Beckmann’s style of painting became more expressive, with the pictorial means increasingly serving the content of the message. The time-critical and ironizing attitude became characteristic of Beckmann. In 1925, he took on a master class at the Städelschule in Frankfurt. In 1947 he became a professor at the Washington University Art School in St. Louis and in 1949 a lecturer at the Art School of the Brooklyn Museum in New York. Max Beckmann died in New York in 1950. 1952 — First exhibition at the Welz Gallery.
Max BECKMANN was born in Leipzig in 1884. From 1900, he studied at the Grand Ducal School of Art in Weimar. 1903 move to Paris and study at the Académie Colarossi. Beckmann lived in Berlin from 1904. In 1906, he took part in the exhibition of the Berlin Secession in Weimar and received the honorary prize of the Deutscher Künstlerbund. In 1907, the artist joined the Berlin Secession. From around 1916, Max Beckmann’s style of painting became more expressive, with the pictorial means increasingly serving the content of the message. The time-critical and ironizing attitude became characteristic of Beckmann. In 1925, he took on a master class at the Städelschule in Frankfurt. In 1947 he became a professor at the Washington University Art School in St. Louis and in 1949 a lecturer at the Art School of the Brooklyn Museum in New York. Max Beckmann died in New York in 1950. 1952 — First exhibition at the Welz Gallery.
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