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Article: Max Beckmann: retrospective.
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- National Review
- Article date:
- May 31, 1985
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THIS LAVISHLY illustrated collection of 12 scholarly essays by German and American authors, with a catalogue of Beckmann's 636 paintings, drawings, and prints, celebrates the centenary exhibition of one of the greatest modern painters at museums in Munich, Berlin, St. Louis, and Los Angeles. Most of the essays are badly written, boring, an d banal, though the ones on the War, the city, Amsterdam, and America are illuminating.
Beckmann was born in Leipzig in 1884, studied in Weimar and Paris, was a medical orderly in a typhus hospital and in an operating room in Belgium during the Great War, suffered a nervous breakdown, worked in Berlin and taught in Frankfurt, ...