Picture "Seascape with Agaves and Old Castle" (1939), framed
Picture "Seascape with Agaves and Old Castle" (1939), framed
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reproduction, collotype on paper | framed | passe-partout | glazed | size 70 x 94.5 cm (h/w)
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Picture "Seascape with Agaves and Old Castle" (1939), framed
Beckmann spent an entire decade in exile in Amsterdam. In 1938 he had the opportunity to travel from there to the French Riviera. "Seascape with Agaves" is a painting made of memory, a dream of an imaginary refuge, which he completed later in Amsterdam.
Original: 1939, oil on canvas, 60 x 90.5 cm (h/w), National Gallery, National Museums in Berlin.
High-quality edition in fine collotype on uncoated paper. Framed in black and silver solid wood frame, with passe-partout, glazed. Size 70 x 94,5 cm (h/w).
About Max Beckmann
1884-1950
Max Beckmann, born in Leipzig in 1884, seems like a solitary figure in the avant-garde of his time. While the incipient modernism programmatically led painting step by step to complete non-objectivity, Beckmann positioned himself in the art historical tradition and consciously linked his art to the painting of the late 19th century.
A recurring motif in his works is the sea, which he once described in an interview as his "old friend". In his early works, the sea was a mysterious and vital space of existential experience but during National Socialism, it became a motif of freedom, emergence and flight.
In 1910, Beckmann became elected as a board member of the Berlin Secession, the youngest ever to achieve this status, and later his art was declared "degenerate" by the Nazi regime. Today Beckmann is considered one of the most important representatives of German Expressionism. His works are exhibited in many major museums of modernism and sell for top prices at auctions.
Artistic movement that replaced Impressionism in the early 20th century.
Expressionism is the German form of the art revolution in painting, graphic art and sculpture, which found its precursor in the works of Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin in the late 19th century. The Expressionists attempted to advance to the primal elements of painting. With vibrant, unbroken colours in large areas and with the emphasis on the line and the resulting targeted suggestive expressiveness, they fought against the artistic taste established by the bourgeoisie.
The most important representatives of Expressionism were the founders of "Die Brücke" (The Bridge): Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Erich Heckel, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Max Pechstein, Otto Mueller and Franz Marc, August Macke and others.
Masters of Viennese Expressionism are Egon Schiele and Oskar Kokoschka. Among the sculptors, Ernst Barlach is the most famous.
Fauvism is the French form of Expressionism.