‎SCHNEEDE (Uwe, M.)‎
‎BECKMANN.‎

‎BECKMANN : 1884-1950 : The Path To Myth‎

‎, Taschen, 2011 Hardcover, 200 pages, ENG, 320 x 260 x 25 mm, in good condition, dustjacket, illustrated in colour / b/w. ISBN 9783836532532.‎

‎Max Beckmann (1884-1950) found his central theme in the angst of 20th-century interwar experience. With a style between Expressionism and New Objectivity, later softened into more radiant naturalism, the painter and printmaker probed the strife of the human condition in portraits, self-portraits, and allegorical tableau. Beckmann's early pictures showed the influence of Impressionism, with a leaning towards biblical, historical, and allegorical themes. Serving in the medical corps in Belgium during World War I, he was discharged after a nervous breakdown, and would return to art with anguished new strategies of distortion, angularity, and exaggerated color. In chaotic scenes of the circus, cabarets, carnivals, and candelit chambers, he emphasized the theatricality of life and seemed to foretell the doom of the interwar Weimar Republic with his cast of lurid characters, often peppered with ominous fragments of myth, biblical reference, and opaque allegory. Beckmann's Departure is the first in a series of triptych paintings recalling the juxtaposed scenes of heaven and hell, sin and salvation typical to medieval or Renaissance altarpieces. Though the artist denied that Departure had specific meaning, it is often regarded as an emblematic response to the rise of National Soclalism, painted at the time that the Nazis fired Beckmann from his professorship at the Frankfurt Art Academy. This monograph features more than 180 of Beckmann's from 1907 to 1950, including many of his most famous self-portraits and triptychs. Biographical essays cover his war years, the 1920s in Frankfurt, his Nazi exile years in Amsterdam, and his emigration to the United States. Bonus additional material includes photographs on which many of his paintings are based, several exhibition shots, and images from other artists as Pablo Picasso, Eugene Delacroix, Max Ernst, and Edvard Munch that visualize Beckmann's inspirations and context.‎

‎Max Beckmann - Retrospective‎

‎Saint Louis, The Saint Louis Art Museum, 1984 Softcover, 482 pages, 30 x 23 cm, English text. *good condition. ISBN 9780393019377.‎

‎This illustrated volume presents an overview of Beckmann's work, from his early years in Germany, to his decade in exile in Amsterdam, to his final year in the USA. A critical analysis attempts to decipher Beckmann's expressionist language and to outline the themes that run through his work. Carla Schulz-Hoffmann is Director of the Collection of Twentieth-century art in the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich, Germany. She teaches at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and has edited several catalogues on expressionist and modern art.‎

‎Max Beckmann - Die Aquarelle und Pastelle - Catalogue Raisonn ‎

‎, DuMont Literatur und Kunst Verlag, 2006**, Pictorial softcover, frontispice in color, 220 x 290mm., 376pp., profound illustration in color and b/w. DEUTSCH‎

‎Published to coincide with the 2006 showings at the Schirn Museum of Art in Frankfurt, Germany and the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, of watercolors and pastels by German painter Max Beckmann (1884-1950). Various essays - biography, list of works and bibliography. New book.‎

‎UNIVERSUM MAX BECKMANN‎

‎, Waanders Uitgevers, 2024 Hardcover, 300 x 240 mm, 176 pagina's, NL edition. ISBN 9789462625280.‎

‎Ruimtelijke beleving is essentieel voor de schilder Max Beckmann (1884-1950), die tot de meest eigenzinnige en unieke kunstenaars van de twintigste eeuw behoort. De erudiete schilder ontwikkelt uit talloze bronnen - waaronder mythologie, religie en literatuur - en eigen observaties een zeer persoonlijke beeldtaal. Dit resulteert in een indrukwekkend oeuvre dat zich niet eenvoudig laat duiden, maar een sterke en mysterieuze aantrekkingskracht heeft. Beckmanns schilderijen zijn figuratief: portretten, stillevens, landschappen (met ook zee- en stadsgezichten) en mythologische en historische voorstellingen. Het vernieuwende en moderne van Beckmanns werk zit niet zozeer in zijn onderwerpskeuze, maar juist in de uitwerking ervan. Specifiek in de weergave en manipulatie van de ruimte. In dit boek en in de tentoonstelling onderzoekt Kunstmuseum Den Haag de verbeelding van de ruimte in het oeuvre van Max Beckmann: een levenslange obsessie van de schilder.‎

‎Max Beckmann - Die frühen Bilder - ‎

‎ Kunsthalle Bielefeld 26. September bis 21. November 1982 - Städtische Galerie in Städelschen Kunstinstitut Frankfurt am Main 28. Januar bis 17. April 1983 - grand format broché souple sous couverture illustrée en couleurs, 218 pages illustrées en noir et en couleurs dont 76 planches en hors texte - bon état - texte en allemand - ‎