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Max Beckmann: The Formative Years, 1915-25
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Olaf Peters

Max Beckmann

The Formative Years, 1915-25

Olaf Peters

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English
Prestel
03 October 2023
Art & design styles: Expressionism; Art & design styles: Cubism; Painting & paintings
This generously illustrated and comprehensive book focuses on a decisive decade in Max Beckmann's career as one of the leading figurative painters of the twentieth century. This publication will provide insight into a critical period in the artist's development and the accomplishments that earned him such high esteem.

Beckmann's brief but profoundly jarring service as a medical orderly during World War I led to a nervous breakdown. He assimilated his experiences and incorporated recent and radical developments in art, such as Cubism and Expressionism, leading him to advance new pictorial conceptions beginning in 1915.

To many of his contemporaries, the work Beckmann created between 1917 and 1925 placed him at the forefront of the latest developments in representational painting. In 1925, Beckmann's celebrated status was confirmed by his prominence in the groundbreaking “Neue Sachlichkeit” (New Objectivity) exhibition in Mannheim, although he later distanced himself from the term.

This book will situate Beckmann artistically and historically. Essays by both established experts and emerging scholars investigate the seminal energy found in the work he created between 1915 to 1925 - a period to which the artist himself repeatedly returned over the course of his lifetime.

The self-referential aspect of Beckmann's output is key to understanding his progression as an artist, which comes more clearly into focus via an analysis of these critical early years.

AUTHOR: Olaf Peters is a professor of modern art at Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg, Germany. He is the editor and a contributing author of other Neue Galerie exhibition catalogues published by Prestel, including Modern Worlds: Austrian and German Art, 1890–1940, and Before the Fall: German and Austrian Art of the 1930s.

230 colour illustrations
Edited by:  
Imprint:   Prestel
Country of Publication:   Germany
Dimensions:   Height: 286mm,  Width: 235mm, 
Weight:   567g
ISBN:   9783791379944
ISBN 10:   3791379941
Pages:   256
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

OLAF PETERS is a professor of modern art at Martin Luther University in Halle- Wittenberg, Germany. He is the editor and a contributing author of other Neue Galerie exhibition catalogues published by Prestel, including Modern Worlds: Austrian and German Art, 1890–1940, and Before the Fall: German and Austrian Art of the 1930s. Other contributors include ANNA HECKMANN, JÜRGEN MÜLLER, DIETRICH SCHUBERT, ELISA TAMASCHKE, and CHRISTIANE ZEILLER.

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