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Max Beckmann

[German Expressionist Painter, 1884-1950]

• Relationships: Member of Die Neue Sachlichkeit (The New Objectivity), a group of Expressionist painters.
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Original works by Max Beckmann available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
 
 
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:
Art Institute of Chicago Collection Database   NEW!
9 works by Max Beckmann online

Dallas Museum of Art, Texas   NEW!
Self Portrait, drypoint, 1918

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Many works by Max Beckmann

Guggenheim Museum, New York City

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
Adam And Eve, bronze sculpture, 1936
Laboratory, 1946
Still Life With Cello And Bass Fiddle, 1950

Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana   NEW!

Max Beckmann at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Self-Portrait with a Stylus, drypoint, 1916

Max Beckmann at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
The Last Ones, lithograph, 1919

Max Beckmann at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Beginning, 1949 (Zoom)

Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
4 works

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Paintings collection online

Museum of Modern Art, New York City
17 works by Max Beckmann online

National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
12 works online

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
Still Life with Saxophones

Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
Self-portrait with a stiff hat

Ackland Art Museum at the University of North Carolina

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Hotel Lobby, 1950

Art Collection of the Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango, Colombia

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Mother and daughter, 1946

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
3 prints online

Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham, UK

Berkeley Art Museum + Pacific Film Archive
The Martyrdom (Das Martyrium)

Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University, Illinois
2 works online (Note that this site opens each work in a new window)

Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna O Waiwhetu, New Zealand   NEW!
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Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany (in German)   NEW!  

Guilford College Art Gallery, North Carolina

Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts   NEW!

Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington - Provenance Research Project
7 works online

Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany (in German)   NEW!  

Kunsthaus Zurich

Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland   NEW!
Alphabetically under "B"

Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf, Germany

Max Beckmann in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database

MacKenzie Art Gallery, Saskatchewan

Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Les Artistes mit Gemüse (Artists with Vegetable), 1943

Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Brazil (in Portuguese)  

Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf
Quappi in Blue and Grey, 1944

Museum of Modern Art, New York City - Provenance Research Project
5 works by Beckmann

Neue Galerie Museum for German and Austrian Art, New York City
Click "Collection" > "View the collection" > "Artists" > "Max Beckmann"

Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma
In the Tram, 1922

Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna   NEW!

Philadelphia Museum of Art
(On the zoom-in page, use the slider bar to magnify the image)

Portland Art Museum, Oregon
The Mill, 1947

Portland Art Museum, Oregon
Kasbek, 1923

Portland Museum of Art, Maine   NEW!
Click thumbnail #3

Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, Saint Louis, Missouri   NEW!

Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri
Many works online

San Diego Museum of Art, California
Requires Flash: Click on "Artist Index", then on "B"

Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago

Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas
Self-Portrait, woodcut

Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany
The Market Crier (Self-Portrait of Beckmann at the Circus), 1921

Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (in German)  

State Museums of Berlin   NEW!

Tate Gallery, London, UK

Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid

Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany (in German)  

Walker Art Center, Minnesota

Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania
Minette, etching

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Pictures from Image Archives:
Max Beckmann at Insecula

Artyzm

Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)  

Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)  

El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)  

Humanities Web

Max Beckmann at ImageNETion

Max Beckmann at The Athenaeum
2 works online

University of Michigan SILS Art Image Browser

USC Annenberg School for Communication

 
Other Web Sites:
Art of the First World War

Artdreamguide (in Italian)  
Biographical information and a guide to the museums owning important collections of the artist's work.

The BBC
max beckmann, tate modern

The Legacy Project
"A gathering place for people interested in the enduring legacies of the many violent traumas of the 20th century"

 
Articles:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Max Beckmann
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 75-word preview only. Troubleshooting

Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.

Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info

Artcyclopedia
"Mad Max (Max Beckmann at the Museum of Modern Art)"

Artnet Magazine
Self-portrait with Horn, 1938

Artnet Magazine
Max Beckmann in Exile

PBS
A look at the life and work of the artist

Planet Deutsche
Article on Beckmann and his connection to the Weimar Era

Tate Magazine
Leon Golub on Max Beckmann

The New York Observer
Article by Hilton Kramer: Max Beckmann Still Shocks Viewers With His Greatness

The New York Observer
Article by Hilton Kramer: Beckmann, Picasso: Painters Reunited For the First Time

The New York Observer
Article by Hilton Kramer: Dix and Beckmann: Two Painters Convey The Horror of War

Time Magazine
"Psychological Realist in a Bad Age", 1985 article by Robert Hughes

Time Magazine
"Scenes of Hellish Heat: Exiled from a Collapsing World, Max Beckmann Stunningly Allegorized it", 1996 article by Robert Hughes

  
 
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