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5 unusual facts about Max Beckmann


Anthony Ruby

His work, influenced by Otto Dix, Max Beckmann, Diego Rivera, Goya, and José Clemente Orozco, have sold to private and public collectors such as University College Cork and Cork Institute of Technology.

Billy Morrow Jackson

Over the course of his education, Mr. Jackson was taught by Max Beckmann, Fred Conway and Abraham Rattner.

Cultural Bolshevism

Several German artists, such as Max Ernst and Max Beckmann, were denounced by the Nazis as "cultural Bolsheviks".

James D. Zirin

He has appeared in major estates litigation, most notably the litigation involving the Estate of Mark Rothko, the estate of William S. Todman as well as the litigation involving the estate of the widow of the expressionist artist, Max Beckmann.

Perry T. Rathbone

Rathbone also was instrumental in helping the German artist Max Beckmann move to America after the war by securing him a teaching position at Washington University.


Bernhard Sprengel

Bernhard Sprengel had already developed a passion for 20th-century art and he had begun a private collection of paintings and sculpture, including works by Picasso, Chagall, Macke, Beckmann, Marc, Klee and Feininger.

Indiana University Art Museum

Works by German and Austrian Expressionists August Macke, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Alexej von Jawlensky, Max Beckmann, and Emil Nolde, along with early modern European and American masters such as Fernand Léger, Marcel Duchamp, Georges Braque, and Kurt Schwitters, are in the museum’s collection.

Marlborough Fine Art

During the 1970s and 1980s, Marlborough staged exhibitions by Frank Auerbach, Lynn Chadwick, Lucian Freud, Barbara Hepworth, R.B. Kitaj, Ben Nicholson, Victor Pasmore, John Piper, Graham Sutherland, Jacques Lipchitz, René Magritte, Max Beckmann, Max Bill, and Henri Matisse.

Museum Kunst der Westküste

Important Scandinavian and German artists of the 19th and 20th centuries are represented, including Anna Ancher, Michael Ancher, Max Beckmann, Johan Christian Dahl, Peder Severin Krøyer, Christian Krohg, Max Liebermann, Emil Nolde and Edvard Munch.

Pat Adams

In 1950 she moved to New York City and enrolled in the art program at the Brooklyn Museum where she studied under Max Beckmann, John Ferren and Reuben Tam.

Tom Huck

Prints by Albrecht Dürer, William Hogarth, Jose Guadalupe Posada, and Max Beckmann were featured alongside Huck's "The Transformation of Brandy Baghead Pts. 1, 2, & 3".


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