Max Beckmann - Hatje Cantz

A two-page book spread with a dark background, featuring a collage of vintage black and white photographs of the artist Max Beckmann and a woman. The photos, from the 1920s and 1930s, show them in various personal scenes: in the woods, in a park, on a city street, and along railroad tracks. The layout includes overlapping images and text captions.

A two-page spread from an art book titled Departure. On the left is Max Beckmann's 1933 painting Rape of Europa, showing a woman clinging to a large black bull in the water. On the right is a painting of two stylized figures in a boat on the sea.

An overhead view of a book's table of contents spread across two pages. The design is minimalist, with black text on a light grey background, organized into titled sections like Departure, Transit, The Sea, and The Window. Each section lists article titles, authors, and page numbers.

A two-page book spread displays a collection of archival materials. On the left is a black and white photo of a gallery with modernist paintings from the Degenerate Art exhibition, with an open, handwritten diary below it. The right page shows a photo of a man in a hat holding a dog, above a collage of typed and handwritten letters.

A two-page spread from an art book titled The Sea, set against a dark background. On the left is a colorful Expressionist painting of a woman in a blue swimsuit and white cap sitting by the ocean. The right page displays a collage of vintage black-and-white photographs of a man and a woman, presumably the subjects of the painting, on a beach and in a boat.

A two-page spread from a book or magazine. The left page has a dark background and features four vintage images of New York City, including a photo in Central Park, and postcards of the Empire State Building and street scenes. The right page is white and contains columns of text under the large heading, City Hotel Bar.

An open art book shows a two-page spread featuring two expressionist self-portraits by Max Beckmann. On the left is a black-and-white 1920 drypoint etching, Königin Bar, showing the artist in a crowded, chaotic scene. On the right is a 1919 color oil painting, Self-Portrait with Champagne Glass, depicting him seated at a table with a cigarette and a drink.

A two-page book spread juxtaposing representations of the Promenade des Anglais in Nice. The left page features a collage with a vintage travel guide, a color postcard of the promenade at sunset, and black-and-white photos of the scene by day and by night. The right page displays a large, colorful expressionist painting from 1947, depicting the same promenade at night as viewed from a balcony by a woman.

An open art book showing a two-page spread. The left page features a colorful Expressionist painting by Max Beckmann, Dance in Baden-Baden, showing couples dancing in a crowded club. The right page displays a black-and-white lithograph by Beckmann, The Theater Foyer, depicting a bustling crowd of people. Both pages include captions identifying the artworks.

An expressionist triptych painting with thick black outlines. The left panel shows a bearded artist with a palette looking at a topless woman crouching with a sword. The central panel features a nude figure from the back, a man holding a ladder, and another man. The right panel shows a group of women playing string instruments and singing.

Max Beckmann

DEPARTURE

€ 54.00

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By (artist): Max Beckmann

Edited by: Oliver Kase, Sarah Louisa Henn , Christiane Zeiller

January 2023, 352 Pages, 393 Photos

Lay-Flat Binding with Flaps

242mm x 310mm

ISBN: 978-3-7757-5245-9

HATJE CANTZ VERLAG
Mommsenstr. 27
10629 Berlin
Germany
E-Mail: contact@hatjecantz.de

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| Departure into the Unknown

Travel is a fundamental experience of human existence. For Max Beckmann it was of existential importance both in a symbolic, but also in a deeply personal sense. In the 1920s, he regularly traveled to the noble health resorts and palace hotels on the Dutch, Italian, and French coasts. His defamation as a "degenerate" artist by the Nazi regime, however, forced him to retreat, first from Frankfurt to Berlin and subsequently into exile in Amsterdam. His emigration to the United States marked the culmination of a life entwined with the longing to travel as well as uprooting, transit, and exile. Max Beckmann. DEPARTURE assembles an outstanding selection of artworks and initiates a dialogue with hitherto unseen objects and materials from the Max Beckmann Archive. It shows Beckmann's relationship to film and literature as a producer of images of aspirations and longing resonating with notions of identity and home.

This book is also available in German.

MAX BECKMANN (1884-1950) is one of the most important artists of the 20th century. A star of the Berlin Secession, Beckmann's career was slowed by World War I and a personal crisis, but continued in the 1920s. After the Nazis forced him to resign his professorship in Frankfurt in 1933, he went into exile in Amsterdam in 1937 and subsequently emigrated to the US in 1947. Teaching in St. Louis and New York, he became the most successful German artist in the United States of his time.

EXHIBITION
Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
November 25, 2022-March 12, 2023