Picture "Seascape with Agaves and Old Castle" (1939), framed
Picture "Seascape with Agaves and Old Castle" (1939), framed
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reproduction, collotype on paper | framed | passe-partout | glazed | size 70 x 94.5 cm (h/w)
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Picture "Seascape with Agaves and Old Castle" (1939), framed
Beckmann spent an entire decade in exile in Amsterdam. In 1938 he had the opportunity to travel from there to the French Riviera. "Seascape with Agaves" is a painting made of memory, a dream of an imaginary refuge, which he completed later in Amsterdam.
Original: 1939, oil on canvas, 60 x 90.5 cm (h/w), National Gallery, National Museums in Berlin.
High-quality edition in fine collotype on uncoated paper. Framed in black and silver solid wood frame, with passe-partout, glazed. Size 70 x 94,5 cm (h/w).
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About Max Beckmann
1884-1950
Max Beckmann, born in Leipzig, Germany, in 1884, seems like a solitary figure in the avant-garde of his time. While the emerging modern movement gradually led painting programmatically towards complete non-objectivity, Beckmann aligned himself with the art-historical tradition and consciously linked his art to the painting of the late 19th century.
A recurring motif in his works is the sea, which he once described in an interview as his "old friend". In his early works, he portrays it as a mysteriously vital space of existential experience, while during the National Socialism era, it transforms into a motif of freedom, departure, and escape.
In 1910, Beckmann was elected as a board member of the Berlin Secession, the youngest ever to achieve this status, and later his art was declared "degenerate" by the Nazi regime. Today, Beckmann is considered one of the most significant representatives of German Expressionism. His works are exhibited in many major modern art museums and sell for top prices at auctions.
Artistic movement that replaced Impressionism in the early 20th century.
Expressionism is the German form of the art revolution in painting, graphic art and sculpture, with its precursors found in the works of Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh, and Paul Gauguin at the end of the 19th century. The expressionists sought to reach the fundamental elements of painting. Using vibrant, unbroken colours in large areas, emphasising lines, and aiming for suggestive expressiveness, they fought against the artistic taste established by the bourgeoisie.
The most important representatives of Expressionism were the founders of "Die Brücke": Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Erich Heckel, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Max Pechstein, Otto Mueller and Franz Marc, August Macke and others.
Masters of Viennese Expressionism are Egon Schiele and Oskar Kokoschka. Among sculptors, Ernst Barlach is the most famous.
Fauvism is the French form of Expressionism.