Beckmann

Exile Figures

Tomas Llorens

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Fundacion Coleccion Thyssen-Bornemisza
01 March 2019

Art & design styles: c 1900 to c 1960; Individual artists, art monographs

A retrospective of Max Beckmann's career from before the First

World War to his years in exile from Germany, first in Amsterdam

and then New York

This catalogue is published to accompany the exhibition at the Thyssen-Bornemisza

Museum, Madrid, on Max Beckmann (1884-1950), one of Germany's leading

20th-century artists. Initially close to Expressionism and New Objectivity, Beckmann

developed a unique and independent pictorial style, one filled with symbolic resonances

that offered a powerful account of the society of his day. Curated by Tomàs Llorens,

the exhibition brings together more than fifty works, including paintings, lithographs

and sculptures that cover Beckmann's years in Germany from the period prior to World

War I, when he first achieved public recognition, to the rise of National Socialism in

the 1930s, when he was expelled from the Frankfurt art school where he taught and

was banned from exhibiting in public.

The exhibition also focuses on the artist's years

in Amsterdam and the United States where he lived after he was obliged to leave

Germany. This section is based on four metaphors relating to exile, understood both

literally and as the existential condition of modern man: Masks, which looks at the

loss of identity associated with the condition of exile; Electric Babylon, which focuses

on the modern city as the capital of exile; The Long Goodbye, which constructs a

parallel between exile and death; and The Sea, a metaphor of the infinite, its powers of

seduction and alienation.

By: Tomas Llorens
Imprint: Fundacion Coleccion Thyssen-Bornemisza
Country of Publication: Spain
Dimensions: Height: 270mm, Width: 210mm,
Weight: 1.110kg
ISBN: 9788417173227
ISBN 10: 8417173226
Pages: 210
Publication Date: 01 March 2019
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Tomàs Llorens is a distinguished Spanish art historian. He has been Director of the Valencian Institute of Modern Art, Director of the Reina Sofía National Art Center Museum, and was curator-in-chief of the Thyssen-Bornemisza collection from 1991 to 2005

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Beckmann

Exile Figures

Tomas Llorens

$110

Hardback

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