Culture shock, German-style Jul 5, 2008
It was only in the mid-1980s that art historians became comfortable with the idea that artists such as Max Beckmann, Otto Dix and George Grosz could be seen as a second wave of Expressionists, despite their stylistic differences. This was partly due to writers such as Donald E. Gordon beginning to analyse Expressionism as a set of shared ideas and attitudes, rather than a particular moment in time. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Otto Hall provides an object lesson in the perils of museum design Jun 29, 2008
The museum owned world-class works by such artists as Joseph Beuys and Max Beckmann - the self-portrait of Beckmann in a tuxedo is one of Harvard's unforgettable treasures - and also housed frequent touring exhibitions. If there were going to be any air leaks through the exterior walls, the curators wanted to be sure the air would leak out of the building, not into it. (Boston Globe)
Art museum acquires new work including prints, fan paintings May 9, 2008
Self-Portrait in Bowler Hat drypoint print by Max Beckmann. The Cleveland Museum of Art has announced additions to its permanent collection, including Self-Portrait in Bowler Hat by print-making icon Max Beckmann (German, 1884-1950). (Cleveland Jewish News, OH)
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)
A new exhibit highlights cultural decadence of Weimar Germany Nov 24, 2006
Presented in seven galleries devoid of fanfare or froufrou, "Glitter and Doom" contains more than 100 paintings and drawings by 10 artists, prominent among them George Grosz, Christian Schad, Rudolf Schlichter and Karl Hubbuch, and, most conspicuously, the unrelentingly savage Otto Dix and his magnificent other, Max Beckmann. With Dix represented by 53 works and Beckmann holding his own at 17, the two preside over this exhibition like Picasso and Braque, except that they are equals. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Grit and Glitz at the Met Nov 16, 2006
The exhibit features portraits by 10 artists: Max Beckmann, Heinrich Maria Davringhausen, Otto Dix, George Grosz, Karl Hubbuch, Ludwig Meidner, Christian Schad, Rudolf Schlicter, Georg Scholz, and Gert Wollheim. Each section of the gallery devotes itself to the exploration of different social types, each conveying the banality of life with a hallucinatory vision, probing its viewer to question what is real and what is created. (The Daily Princetonian, NJ)
73m golden portrait by Klimt is a world-beater Jun 20, 2006
" The private sale easily beats the previous world record price, when Picasso's Boy with a Pipe (The Young Apprentice) fetched $104 million (57 million) at a Sotheby's auction two years ago. Mr Lauder, 61, once a close associate of Ronald Reagan and a former American ambassador to Austria, is one of the most powerful figures in the American art world. For 10 years he was the chairman of the board of the Museum of Modern Art, in New York, and in 2001 he opened his own museum, the Neue Galerie,... (Telegraph.co.uk)
Basel Art Fair May Sell More Than $300 Million Jun 15, 2006
Not on display: A 1941 Max Beckmann painting for $975,000 and a 1930s Yves Tanguy gouache at $45,000. Ropac has Tony Cragg's ``Cauldron,'' a 2005 bronze work, for $407,000. (Yahoo News -- Art and Museums)
Max Beckmann May 19, 2006
A Beckmann refuge showcases his work - Arts & Leisure - International Herald Tribune. TODAY IN ARTS & LEISURE. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Exploring the many meanings of hadith Feb 7, 2006
Often compared to Goya and Max Beckmann, he works primarily in what he calls "stone-age animation." He draws with charcoal on paper, rendering each movement in a given sequence by repeatedly smudging, erasing and blending his lines. He records each change with an old Bolex camera. (The Daily Star, Lebanon)
