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...Paul Tillich and teaching fellow in General Education at Harvard, co-editor of the Psychodelic Review, Protestant Chaplain at Brandeis, and leader of the East House seminar on "Myth and Consciousness," is currently collaborating with Rick Chapman '65-3 on a book about the life and paintings of Max Beckmann...
...Beckman is dead, his life-history is past. But Max Beckmann is overwhelmingly present in the many paintings, woodcuts, and etchings which comprise his recently exhibited retrospective. This elaborate sampling (168 pieces) of Beckmann's half-century activity began its tour in Boston, and now moves to New York, Chicago, Hamburg, Frankfort, and closes at the Tate Gallery in London. This first comprehensive exhibition of his works to be seen in the United States since 1948 overpoweringly demonstrates Beckmann's acute self-awareness and his prophetic consciousness...
...ruthlessly honest, both with himself and with the world around him. Seeing behind the masks which people assume as their identities, he realized, that life in all its mocking irony, inevitably takes on a stage-like quality. Beckmann lived at a time when the facade of "civil-ization"--the protective gloss which disguises man's nature--was blasted into pieces of human flesh by World War I. Beckmann suffered through the war, on the front as a hospital corpsman, and later in a hospital for two years, recovering from a nervous collapse. For Beckmann, the war was a rehearsal...
...lustiness and his awareness of death gave his art a touch of personal agony that overwhelmed the visible world he painted. "True art," he wrote, "is to depict unreality." And his brusquely applied colors readied the public for the subsequent makers of German expressionism, such as Max Beckmann and Oskar Kokoschka. In awe, one expressionist, Ernst Kirchner, admitted of Corinth: "At first he was mediocrity. At the end, truly great...
Painter Lindner grew up in the era of Brecht's social satire, of Max Beckmann's razor-sharp realism, of the street-fighting Weimar Republic, where a mark was worth less than a match...