Max Beckmann:
Picture "Seascape with Agaves and Old Castle" (1939), framed
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Picture "Seascape with Agaves and Old Castle" (1939), framed
Max Beckmann:
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
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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, Germany, in 1884, seems like a solitary figure in the avant-garde of his time. While the emerging modern movement gradually led painting programmatically towards complete non-objectivity, Beckmann aligned himself with 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, he portrays it as a mysteriously vital space of existential experience, while during the National Socialism era, it transforms into a motif of freedom, departure, and escape.

In 1910, Beckmann was 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 significant representatives of German Expressionism. His works are exhibited in many major modern art museums and sell for top prices at auctions.

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