Max Beckmann

Name: Max Beckmann
Brand: Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd
SKU: 9783775752459
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Max Beckmann's life and art are explored through the lens of travel and exile. From his journeys to luxurious resorts in the 1920s to his forced displacement by the Nazi regime, this collection examines how travel shaped his identity and creative expression. Featuring an exceptional selection of his artworks alongside rare archival materials, the book highlights Beckmann's engagement with film and literature, capturing themes of aspiration, longing, and the search for home.
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This book will appeal to readers interested in arts and culture, particularly those fascinated by 20th-century European art, exile narratives, and the intersection of visual art with literature and film.

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Travel is a fundamental experience of human existence. For Max Beckmann, it was of existential importance, both in a symbolic and deeply personal sense. In the 1920s, he regularly traveled to the noble health resorts and palace hotels on the Dutch, Italian, and French coasts. His defamation as a "degenerate" artist by the Nazi regime, however, forced him to retreat, first from Frankfurt to Berlin and subsequently into exile in Amsterdam.

His emigration to the United States marked the culmination of a life entwined with the longing to travel, as well as uprooting, transit, and exile. Max Beckmann. DEPARTURE assembles an outstanding selection of artworks and initiates a dialogue with hitherto unseen objects and materials from the Max Beckmann Archive. It shows Beckmann's relationship to film and literature as a producer of images of aspirations and longing, resonating with notions of identity and home.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9783775752459

Publisher: Hatje Cantz

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 23 February 2023

Country: Germany

Imprint: Hatje Cantz

Illustration: 250 Illustrations

Contributors:

Edited by Oliver Kase
Text by Florian Illies
Text by Dževad Karahasan
Text by Sarah Louisa Henn
Text by Ulrike Draesner
Text by Maike Grün
Designed by Martha Stutteregger
Text by James Arthur
Text by Françoise Forster-Hahn

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 235.0mm

Height: 285.0mm

Weight: 1950g

Pages: 352

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction

About the Author

MAX BECKMANN (1884-1950) is one of the most important artists of the 20th century. A star of the Berlin Secession, Beckmann's career was slowed by World War I and a personal crisis, but continued in the 1920s. After the Nazis forced him to resign his professorship in Frankfurt in 1933, he went into exile in Amsterdam in 1937 and subsequently emigrated to the US in 1947. Teaching in St. Louis and New York, he became the most successful German artist in the United States of his time.