Art of the 20th Century

 

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Max Beckmann



 

Max Beckmann
 

(b Leipzig, 12 Feb 1884; d New York, 27 Dec 1950).

German painter, draughtsman, printmaker and teacher. He was one of the most important German painters of the 20th century. He was initially influenced by traditional styles, but during World War I he rejected perspective and classical proportion in favour of a more expressive objective art. He was persecuted by the Nazis in the 1930s but continued to work, painting his celebrated secular triptychs in the late 1930s and the 1940s.