Self-portrait in words : collected writings and statements, 1903-1950
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Self-portrait in words : collected writings and statements, 1903-1950
University of Chicago Press, 1997
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-402) and index
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Max Beckmann was labeled a "degenerate artist" by the Nazis and chose exile. His artistic production encompassed the figural themes of his early works to the provocatively blunt portraiture, critical urban views, and richly layered symbolic works for which he is now recognized. Although he was a prolific writer, his written work has never before been collected and translated into English. Beckmann is known for the depth, pungency, and tremendous sensuous force of his works, but little is known about his personal life. He carefully distinguished between his public and private writings; he made long pronouncements about art in private and produced strongly personal public statements. This text maps out Beckmann's life and draws attention to the occasions on or for which he produced his writings, to the importance writing had for him as a form of expression, and to both the contemporary and personal references of his ideas and images.
This collection reverberates with Beckmann's experience of life as he moved from the first years of his career in Paris and Berlin to the eastern and western fronts of World War I, the rich cultural and artistic world of postwar Frankfurt, exile in Amsterdam, and final years in the United States. Beckmann's early diaries, war letters, formal statements, interviews, and plays present a different view of this most worldly and involved cultural figure.
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Abbreviations List of Plates Preface and Acknowledgments Maps Introduction 1: Diary, August 14-September 20, 1903 2: Diary, December 6, 1903-January 6, 1904 3: Diary, January 6 or Afterward-March 9, 1904 4: Diary, April 1-May 7, 1904 5: Diary, December 26, 1908-April 4, 1909 6: Response to In Battle for Art: The Answer to the "Protest of German Artists" 7: "Thoughts on Timely and Untimely Art" 8: Diary, December 20, 1912-April 17, 1913 9: Statement for Exhibition at Hamburg Kunstverein, Max Beckmann (Gemalde), Walter Geffcken (Gemalde), Jules Pascin (Zeichnungen) 10: "The New Program" 11: Wartime Letters: East Prussia 12: Wartime Letters: Belgium (Courtrai, Roeselare, Ostende) 13: Wartime Letters: Roeselare, Wervicq, Brussels 14: Catalogue Foreword for Exhibition at I. B. Neumann Graphisches Kabinett, Berlin, Max Beckmann Graphik 15: "Creative Credo" 16: Text for Hell Portfolio 17: Contribution to "On the Value of Criticism: An Inquiry of Artists" 18: Ebbi: A Comedy 19: The Hotel: Drama in Four Acts 20: Letter for the Piper Almanach 21: Autobiography 22: "The Social Stance of the Artist by the Black Tightrope Walker" 23: "The Artist in the State" 24: Statement in the Catalogue of the Mannheim Kunsthalle Retrospective 25: Answer to Frankfurter Zeitung Questionnaire about Politics 26: "On My Painting" 27: Speech Given to His First Class in the United States, Washington University, St. Louis 28: "Letters to a Woman Painter" 29: Speech for Friends and Faculty during Commencement Week Activities, Washington University, St. Louis 30: "Can Painting Be Taught? 1. Beckmann's Answer" Table of Monetary Equivalents Notes Index
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One of the important German artists of the 20th century, Max Beckmann is known for the depth and sensuous force of his works, but little is known about his personal life. This work reveals Beckmann's experience of life from the first years of his career in Berlin and Paris through his final years in the United States. This collection of Beckmann's writings serves as a companion to his art and a testament to the complexities of his life.
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