Vente de tableaux et peintures de Max Beckmann

Max Beckmann (German, born 12 February 1884 in Leipzig and died 27 December 1950 in New York) was an expressionist painter, but he was against the movement and the term. He painted mainly in oil on canvas but also tried his hand at printmaking, sculpture and drawing. He was born into a middle-class family in Saxony and learned painting by studying masters like Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh, Rembrandt and Peter Paul Rubens. His later work was strongly inspired by the style of these painters and by his work as a nurse during the First World War.

Beckmann was the first artist to win the war during his stay in the Weimar Republic. He taught at the Stadelschule Art Academy in Frankfurt in 1925. He was awarded the Gold Medal of the City of Düsseldorf and the Imperial Prize for German Art in 1927. However, Hitler's rise to power and his ban on contemporary art had a devastating impact on Beckmann; Hitler took away his professorship at the Frankfurt Art School and Beckmann was forced to leave for Amsterdam. However, his attempts to obtain a visa to the United States failed, he was poor and suffered his first heart attack. Nevertheless, the artist painted and produced several of his most famous works such as Woman with a Mandolin in Yellow and Red, Nice from the hotel by night and The Departure. The Bark was purchased by the National Gallery in Berlin just before Hitler was elected to power. Beckmann is also known for the self-portraits he painted throughout his life, which rival Picasso's in terms of number. After World War II, Beckmann moved to the United States where he taught at Washington University in St. Louis, Minnesota, and the Brooklyn Museum in New York.

Beckmann's work is exhibited at MoMA in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and the Guggenheim Museum in New York, and in numerous other galleries in Madrid, Zurich, Rome and St. Louis. Beckmann died of a heart attack in Manhattan in 1950.