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...Western Front did in words. By 1923, he had sold an enormous triptych, Trench, to the Wallraf-Richartz Museum in Cologne for 10,000 gold marks, or nearly $3,000. Carrying on as lance bearer of the Neue Sachlichkeit (the New Objectivity), Dix went on to influence Max Beckmann and Georg Grosz with his sharp-edged, magical realism that applied the techniques of the old masters to the social misery of the anarchic Weimar Republic. With Hitler's rise, Dix was ousted from his professorship in art at the Academy of Art in Dresden, forbidden to paint, finally pressed...
...Calder and Archipenko, and they do a reputable business in "painters of the Picasso generation" like Braque, Modigliani, Soutine and Utrillo. Catherine Viviano on East 57th Street is strong on modern Italians like Afro and Cremonini, but she also represents the surrealist Kay Sage and the estate of Max Beckmann...
...greatest German artists of his day, but neither in his lifetime nor in the 75 years since his death has the German public got to know him well. Other artists have long admired him; but the very fame of these admirers-men like Emil Nolde, Franz Marc and Max Beckmann-tended to dim his own. Last week the Bremen Kunsthalle was showing an exquisite exhibition of 116 drawings by the artist that Die Zeit calls "the dusty giant of the 19th century," and the story was still the same. The critics raved, but the general public still withheld its cheers...
Cursed and Blessed. Beckmann's pictures almost always symbolize the uncontrollable, or what he calls the "rough," but his vocabulary of yells, groans and occasional sighs of delight is drawn strictly from the natural world. "As a painter, cursed or blessed with a terrible and vital sensualness," he once wrote, "I must look for wisdom with my eyes. I repeat, with my eyes, for nothing could be more ridiculous or irrelevant than a philosophical conception painted purely intellectually without the terrible fury of the senses grasping each visible form of beauty and ugliness...
...Will Beckmann's work live? No doubt, but for an unexpected reason: he commanded the rainbow; his use of color is as tender as a gardener's and as gracious as that of the most subtle housewife. He was less rough than he thought...