Renzo Piano adds onto Art Institute of Chicago May 26, 2009
Piano has provided elegantly proportioned galleries to accommodate special exhibitions and canonical gems of the AIC's modern and contemporary collection, which include Willem de Kooning's "Excavation" (1950), Henri Matisse's "Bathers by a River" (1909-17), a cluster of sculptures by Constantin Brancusi and a 1937 self-portrait by Max Beckmann. The special-exhibition galleries open bracingly with the one-venue show "Cy Twombly: The Natural World, Selected Works, 2000-2007" (through Sept. 13). (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
City of Basel Rejects Bid for Munch, Chagall Art by Nazi Victim's Heirs Mar 1, 2008
Feb. 29 (Bloomberg) -- The city of Basel rejected a claim by the heirs of Curt Glaser, a Jewish art collector persecuted by the Nazis, for the return of more than 100 works by artists including Edvard Munch, Max Beckmann, Marc Chagall and Henri Matisse. Glaser was director of Berlin's Art Library and an art historian and critic who had Munch and Beckmann as friends. (Bloomberg -- Germany)
Artist Ana Maria Pacheco's work bears silent witness Feb 29, 2008
One can also trace connections to the subjects (war, torture) and the Expressionist styles of painters Leon Golub, Stanley Spencer, Max Beckmann, and Fernando Botero, whose recent "Abu Ghraib" paintings depict bound, tortured, and sexually humiliated prisoners. Pacheco's installation is all the more visceral since you walk among her figures and they catch your eye, implicating you in the violence because you, like all the others, witness it and do nothing to stop it. (Boston Globe)
'Devotional' prints take journey through history Jan 24, 2008
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A stunning gift lights up LACMA Jan 12, 2008
The holdings are so extensive that the greatest-hits installation of prints, drawings and posters by Emil Nolde, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Max Beckmann and many others constitutes the proverbial iceberg's tip. In the main German Expressionist gallery, announced by a magnificent Schmidt-Rottluff painting of a banshee dance, is the museum's remarkable lineup of four paintings by Ernst-Ludwig Kirchner. (Los Angeles Times)
Caustic postwar art, through German eyes Nov 6, 2007
e Maillol in Paris through Feb. 4 examines this art, yet its title, "Allemagne, les Ann?es Noires," or "Germany: The Black Years," makes a different point: that the most prominent of these war artists - Otto Dix, George Grosz, Max Beckmann, Ludwig Meidner and Jacob Steinhardt - were all German. True, some French painters, Fernand L. (International Herald Tribune)
Cologne Cardinal Apologizes for Using Term Linked to Nazis to Describe Art Sep 19, 2007
The Nazis destroyed canvasses and persecuted artists such as Otto Dix, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Emil Nolde and Max Beckmann. They staged the ``Entartete Kunst'' or ``Degenerate Art'' exhibition in 1937 in Munich, where the work of those artists was hung -- in some cases askance and unframed -- and mocked in slogans scrawled on the walls. (Bloomberg -- Germany)
Eye on Art: Two new shows at PMA complement each other May 11, 2007
Published - May, 11, 2007. Two new shows at PMA complement each other. (Pensacola News Journal)
'Das Boot' author Buchheim dies Feb 24, 2007
Returning to Germany as the war came to an end, he made a career writing art books, including works about Expressionists Max Beckmann, Otto Mueller and Pablo Picasso. In 2001, he opened the "Museum der Phantasie" (Museum of the Imagination) in Bernried, Bavaria, in which he displayed a collection of mainly German Expressionist paintings that he had acquired before the war when such art was seen as degenerate. (CNN -- International)
Cabaret Berlin's Doomed Characters Displayed at New York's Met: Interview Jan 31, 2007
On view until Feb. 19, are some 100 portraits, many by Otto Dix, Max Beckmann, George Grosz and Christian Schad. Seated in her cluttered Met office, curator Sabine Rewald discussed her selection while exuding that gaunt look and caustic charm so often exhibited by her disturbed cast of characters. (Bloomberg -- Germany)
Local artist's work heads to New York Jan 1, 2007
Over the years, he's been inspired by Lucian Freud, Everett Raymond Kinstler, Hans Holbein and Max Beckmann. lot of artists have influenced me, he said. (Park Hills Daily Journal, MO)
