GERMANY ~ Max Beckmann - Self Portrait ~

... Self-portrait (Style: Expressionism 1901) one of his works at a major special exhibition in the Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum..."Max becomes Beckmann: It began in Brunswick" from 28/10/2022 – 12/02/2023... one of Germany's leading 20thC artists... Beckmann spent his early years, from the age of 11 to 16 in Brunswick where he created his earliest artistic works... the exhibition presents 100 works of all genres from renowned museums and private collections... at the center of this exhibition are Max Beckmann’s formative early years as an artist... Thanks Dustin!¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Mouth wide open, cheeks covered with curvy lines, head without a neck: Max Beckmann was 17 when he portrayed himself in a pose that is reminiscent of Edvard Munch's famous painting "The Scream".

Max Beckmann (Leipzig 1884 - 1950 New York) is one of the most important international artists of modernism and is primarily known for his self-portraits.  

As painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor and writer, he used his work to explore "the reality that forms the actual mystery of existence" in a tremendously intense and sensual way. His life was shaped by two wars, dictatorship and exile.

Photo: Alistair Overbruck

Stamps: 

Definitives - World of Letters

(Issued 05-01-2023)

Landmarks of Germany

(Issued 05-01-2023)