Editing Max Beckmann (section)

{{Short description|German painter (1884–1950)}}
{{Infobox artist
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| name          = Max Beckmann
| image         = Max Beckmann, photograph by Hans Möller,1922.jpg
| image_size    = 200px
| caption       = Beckmann in 1922
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| birth_date    = {{birth date |1884|2|12}}
| birth_place   = [[Leipzig]], [[German Empire]]
| death_date    = {{death date and age |1950|12|27|1884|2|12}}
| death_place   = New York City, U.S.
| field         = [[Painting]] <br/> [[Sculpture]] <br/> [[Drawing]] <br/> [[Printmaking]]
| training      = 
| movement      = [[New Objectivity]] <br/> [[Expressionism]]
| works         = ''[[The Night (painting)|The Night]]'', ''[[Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery (Beckmann)|Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery]]''
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'''Max Carl Friedrich Beckmann''' (February 12, 1884 – December 27, 1950) was a German painter, [[drawing|draftsman]], [[printmaker]], [[sculpture|sculptor]], and writer. Although he is classified as an [[Expressionist]] artist, he rejected both the term and the movement.<ref>[http://web.grinnell.edu/art/gexp/essays/beckmann.html Max Beckmann] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060110110026/http://web.grinnell.edu/art/gexp/essays/beckmann.html |date=January 10, 2006 }}</ref> In the 1920s, he was associated with the [[New Objectivity]] (''Neue Sachlichkeit''), an outgrowth of Expressionism that opposed its introverted emotionalism. Even when dealing with light subject matter like circus performers, Beckmann often had an undercurrent of moodiness or unease in his works. By the 1930s, his work became more explicit in its horrifying imagery and distorted forms with combination of brutal realism and social criticism, coinciding with the rise of [[Nazism]] in Germany.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Norwich|first=John Julius|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/11814265|title=Oxford illustrated encyclopedia|date=1985–1993|publisher=Oxford University Press|others=Judge, Harry George., Toyne, Anthony.|isbn=0-19-869129-7|location=Oxford [England]|pages=41|oclc=11814265}}</ref>