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...German Jew who fled the Nazis, Lindner was exposed to the earthy expressionism of Max Beckmann and George Grosz, and he admired the smooth machine-surfaces with which Fernand Leger packaged reality. In the U.S., he developed an appreciation for advertising imagery as an illustrator...
...demonic cripples, bloated dwarfs and twisted drunkards, perverted bourgeois and browbeaten soldiers can clearly be traced back to Durer and then down through George Grosz. In his wispy cloudlike sketches and pastels lurks the orchidaceous venom of Odilon Redon. In his zinc-plated etchings there are shades of Max Beckmann. One, entitled Klee and Ensor Fighting over a Smoked Herring, acknowledges the artist's debt to both...
...objection that can be raised to the poem. To write about yourself extrinsically and comically, as in the Dream Songs, is one thing: to sublimate your urge for self-projection in the posture you take toward a deliberately irrelevant subject is something else. Berryman is a little like Max Beckmann in his habits of constant self-depiction (which differs from self-revelation in that the latter is usually true), for running through Bradstreet is the image of the twentieth century poet in a tense pose of self-indulgence. But the worst that can be said of the poem is that...
Through a Curtain Darkly. Amsterdam was a refuge to Beckmann for two years, but the Nazis arrived before he could get a visa to the U.S. He virtually hid out while his unwanted countrymen tried to draft him, aged 60 and with a heart condition, into last-ditch service. After his final war, Beckmann was free to emigrate to the U.S., where he taught in St. Louis and New York...
...Beckmann finally bought back his soul. Upon receiving an honorary doctorate from St. Louis' Washington University in 1950, he said: "Indulge in your subconscious, or intoxicate yourself with wine, for all I care, love the dance, love joy and melancholy, and even death. Art, with religion and the sciences, has always supported and liberated man on his path. Art resolves through Form the many paradoxes of life, and sometimes permits us to glimpse behind the dark curtain which hides those spaces unknown and where one day we shall be unified." Two days after Christmas 1950, while pursuing his imaginary...