Word: beckmann
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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William J. Beckmann...
...German art historian Werner Spies remarks in the catalogue to "Paris-Berlin," the visits made by Henri Matisse or Robert Delaunay to Germany were "marked by a condescending paternalism," in contrast to the tentative and supplicatory visits that German artists like August Macke, Wilhelm Lehmbruck or Max Beckmann made to France: the French went to Germany as living demonstrations, the Germans by and large to Paris as students...
...house style of radical figurative art in Northern Europe between about 1905 and 1930. But as Selz rightly insists in his catalogue essay, it was less a style than a cluster of attitudes. The major expressionist painters-Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, August Macke, Max Pechstein, Franz Marc, Emil Nolde, Max Beckmann, Oskar Kokoschka, Lyonel Feininger-did have formal traits in common. Harsh, dissonant color that blared fitfully from an unrefined surface; jagged shapes, broken-bottle cubism, an appetite for the primitive in drawing; masklike faces, Gothic poses, extreme jumps of tone between limelight and gloom: the sum of these...
...carry a strong current of social idealism. This did not show itself so much in Utopian schemes as in a vague aspiration toward spiritual improvement, salvation through sensitivity, the obverse of which was the weird consumptive eroticism of Schiele. If Schiele was the Cranach of the movement, Beckmann was its Goya: a maker of thickly constructed and disturbing fables in which the collective fantasies of postwar malaise were summed...
...group of drawings of Die Brucke: choice Kirchners, Heckels, and Pechsteins. The collection is also distinguished by its Grosz drawings, examples of his most incisive social criticism, and by a few single gems: Franz Marc's Two Studies for Horses (a preliminary sketch for his painting, Blue Horses), Max Beckmann's horrific The Last Ones (1919), Otto Dix's almost surreal Klara (1920), Schmidt-Rottluff's Seated Nude Facing Left...