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Max Beckmann
1884 - 1950
German Expressionist Painter
Education - Weimar Art Academy
Cause of Death - heart attack
Max Beckmann Art Quotes
"Art is creative for the sake of
realization, not for amusement: for transfiguration, not for the sake
of play. It is the quest of our self that drives us along the eternal
and never-ending journey we must all make." --Max Beckmann
"Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for
transfiguration, not for the sake of play." --Max Beckmann
"I am seeking for the bridge which leans from the visible to the
invisible through reality." --Max Beckmann
"I awoke and yet continued to dream." --Max Beckmann
"I believe the reason I love painting so much is that it forces one to
be objective." --Max Beckmann
"I hardly need to abstract things, for each object is unreal enough
already, so unreal that I can only make it real by means of painting."
--Max Beckmann
Associated Arists
Otto
Dix German
1862-1942 Expressionist
Vincent
van Gogh Dutch,
1853-1890 Post-Impressionist
Max
Beckmann German,
1884-1950 Expressionist
Edvard
Munch Norwegian,
1863-1944 Symbolist/Expressionist
Emile
Nolde German,
1867-1956 Expressionist Painter
Ernst
Kirchner German,
1880-1938 Expressionist Painter.
Wassily
Kandinsky Russian,
1866-1944 Expressionist Painter
Paul
Klee Swiss
1879-1940 Swiss Expressionist Painter
Franz
Marc German,
1880-1916 Expressionist / Fauvist
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