Word: beckmann
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Curiously Unreal. The $1,500 first prize went to German-born Max Beckmann, 65, whom Hitler denounced and hounded out of Germany as a "degenerate" painter. Beckmann's big Fisherwomen was far from being the jut-jawed old master's best or most ambitious work, but ft did show his genius for color as well as his penchant for whipping cruelty and tenderness together into sexy, curiously unreal oils. His lamplit fisherwomen did not look like the sort that go near the water. Their hot peach flesh was set off by black garters and contrasted with the cold...
...Beckmann, who took out his U.S. citizenship papers last year, teaches at the Brooklyn Museum Art School two mornings a week, turns up at Manhattan's Plaza Hotel almost every afternoon at 5:00 for a cup of solitary coffee amidst the potted palms. "It is there," he says, "that I make my fantasies for my work." He often puts fish in his pictures "because I like fish, both to eat and to look at. Also they are symbols." What do they symbolize? "Geist-spirit," Beckmann replies positively. "But the man who looks at my pictures must figure them...
...reasonably good hedge against inflation). But German art is still far below pre-Hitler standards. One good reason why: the painters Hitler had exiled have shown no inclination to hurry back. George Grosz has become a Long Island suburbanite; Lyonel Feininger is busy making watercolors of Manhattan skyscrapers; Max Beckmann broods in Amsterdam...
...jury had picked out twelve pictures it thought Iowa should buy for the university's permanent collection. Last week Director Longman put all the money into one picture. For $5,000 he bought German exile Max Beckmann's enigmatic Tryptych-Carnival. The other 159 pictures could be bought by interested lowans. So far only a few were that interested...
...season were not abstractionists, but men who put awareness of nature and strong emotions ahead of nice design. Among the hit shows: Russia's Marc Chagall (who paints self-playing violins and purple cows in his clouds), Buffalo's Charles Burchfield and Germany's passionate Max Beckmann. To all of them, beauty was a matter of feeling...