Monday, 19 February 2018

Max Beckmann in New York

 
Max Beckmann’s journey in New York summarizes the German artist’s later stage in his stellar art career.  The spotlight is on Max Beckmann's amazing connection with the city of New York. And this connecting chord can be portrayed beautifully through 14 of his paintings that he created from 1949 through 1950 while living in New York. His relationship with New York is also seen in a different light with 25 earlier works by Max Beckmann from his New York collections.

Assembling several groups of his iconic works which includes self-portraits; mythical and expressionist interiors; robust and colorful portraits of women and performers alongside landscapes; and triptychs, Max Beckmann’s love for the city of New York can be carefully scrutinised. All of his amazing works created in New York showcasing narratives of New York, is available online. One must explore the love of New York in Max Beckmann’s paintings. Check out these masterpieces by Max Beckmann and never think twice before grabbing a masterpiece by Max Beckmann yourself.

Max Beckmann’s journey started back in the early twentieth century, by the late 1920s, Max Beckmann was at the pinnacle of his artistic career living and working in Germany. Prestigious art dealers and artwork collectors presented his work was while he was teaching at the Städel Art School in Frankfurt. Soon he moved into a intellectual circle of influential writers as well as critics, publishers and collectors. National Socialists oddly labeled his works as "degenerate" and soon they confiscated all his artworks from the German museums, back in 1937.  Beckmann left Germany and shifted to Amsterdam where he remained for a decade. He accepted a teaching position in 1947 in St.

Louis, Missouri, and within a couple of year he shifted to New York City in September 1949. To Max Beckmann, his new home in New York City was "a prewar Berlin multiplied a hundredfold." Life in Manhattan gave him what he lacked for a long time, stability and it energized him which resulted in brilliant and powerful paintings like “Falling Man” (1950) and “The Town” (City Night) (1950).
In the late December days of 1950, Beckmann left his apartment situated in the Upper West Side of New York to have a brief look at his Self-Portrait in Blue Jacket (1950), which was at the time on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art showcased in the exhibition “American Painting Today.” But on the corner of the 69th Street intersecting Central Park West, this prodigal 66-year-old artist suffered a fatal heart attack and never made it to the Museum.

His death did render the art connoisseurs of New York speechless yet his exhibition stood up from the heartache and was inspired even more towards a blissful success. Max Beckmann’s relationship to New York was made stronger with his sudden death in the very streets of New York. Explore Max Beckmann’s art for the City of New York. Explore New York from the eyes of Max Beckmann. Paintings of New York by Max Beckmann are available online for anyone to have a look at. Buy Max Beckmann’s art online.

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