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...expressionist," Max Beckmann painted only what he felt. Generally, he expressed the feeling that life is hot, dark, strange and rough. "I, too," he used to say, nodding his cliff like head, "am rough...
Died. Max Beckmann, 66, whose expressionistic canvases brought him recognition as one of Germany's best painters; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...that they refused to exhibit it even in avant-garde shows. Ensor resolved to enjoy his masterpiece himself, hung it in an upstairs room and admired it daily. Publicly shown for the first time in 1929, it was hailed as a brilliant "expressionist" picture foreshadowing the works of Max Beckmann and Paul Klee. Connoisseurs clustered around the picture like cattle at a salt lick, but while he lived, Ensor refused to part with it. Last week it went for $40.000 to an Ostend casino proprietor named Gustave Nellens...
...driving such fine artists as Grosz, Josef Albers, Paul Klee and Max Beckmann from the country, by persecuting the few moderns who remained, and by turning their students into soldiers, Hitler had crushed Germany's art tradition. Still cut off from the art of other nations, her new painters were going modern in the dark, groping and hoping for success...
...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...