Frases de Max Beckmann

Max Beckmann fue un pintor alemán.

Beckmann nació en Leipzig en el seno de una familia de granjeros, que abandonaron la granja para establecerse en Leipzig después de su nacimiento. Beckmann comenzó a dibujar a una edad temprana y en 1900 ingresó en la Academia de Artes de Weimar.

Beckmann contrajo matrimonio con Minna Tube en 1903, y ambos se trasladaron a París. Beckmann también visitó Florencia y Génova antes de establecerse en Berlín, en 1904. Su primera exposición fue en 1912, y sus primeros cuadros muestran la influencia de los impresionistas. Su obra tuvo éxito y Beckmann pudo dedicarse por entero al arte.

Beckmann sirvió como enfermero durante la Primera Guerra Mundial, pero fue dado de baja tras sufrir una crisis nerviosa. Se considera que sus experiencias en la guerra tuvieron un enorme efecto en su obra posterior y sus cuadros comenzaron a adoptar un estilo expresionista.

Beckmann dio clases en Fráncfort del Meno desde 1915, pero fue despedido de su puesto por el partido Nazi en 1933. A principios de los años 30, visitó París con frecuencia para pintar y fue durante esta época que empezó a usar los trípticos, influido en parte por El Bosco.

Sus cuadros fueron clasificados como degenerados por los nazis en 1937 y Beckmann se estableció en Ámsterdam.

En 1947, abandonó Ámsterdam para establecerse esta vez en los Estados Unidos. Primero, Misuri y, más tarde, Nueva York. Murió en 1950 por un ataque al corazón mientras se dirigía al Museo Metropolitano para asistir a una exposición de su obra.

Beckmann pintó varios autorretratos, incluyendo Autorretrato en Esmoquin , que es considerado un clásico. Muchas otras de sus obras representan escenas de la vida cotidiana. A menudo muestran grotescos cuerpos mutilados y se consideran una crítica al gobierno alemán de los años 1920 y 1930, además de una alusión a sus experiencias durante la Primera Guerra Mundial.

A lo largo de su vida Max Beckman sólo realizó ocho esculturas en bronce. Reproducen figuras humanas en movimiento, como bailarines haciendo el spagat o el pino puente. Estas piezas tan especiales fueron expuestas en el Instituto Städel en Fráncfort del Meno.[1]​ Wikipedia  

✵ 27. febrero 1884 – 27. diciembre 1950
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Max Beckmann: Frases en inglés

“If one perceives of it all – the entire War or even life as a whole – as a scene in the theater of 'infinity', many things are much easier to bear.”

Beckmann's Diary, 12 September 1940, Amsterdam; as quoted on: 'Arts in exile' http://kuenste-im-exil.de
1940s

“Today I wanted to die of weakness and melancholy again.”

Beckman's Diary, 31 March 1943, Amsterdam; as cited on: 'Arts in exile' http://kuenste-im-exil.de
1940s

“I want to stay here [Amsterdam] for now, then maybe move on to Paris later on. For the interim, Amsterdam is not bad.”

In a letter on 4 August 1937 from Amsterdam, to writer and collector Stephan Lackner; as quoted on artists in exile http://kuenste-im-exil.de/
1930s

“Saw the English [pilots] coming from the sea in huge bands like the bristling hair of Zeus Jupiter. Heard all destroyed in Frankfurt. Sad…”

12 April 1944
notes in his diary, 1944, Amsterdam; as quoted on: 'Arts in exile' http://kuenste-im-exil.de
1940s

“Is there to be no getting away from this loathsome vegetative physicality?... Utter contempt for the lewd enticements that always lure us back into life's clutches. And when, half-parched, we seek to quench our thirst, the gods laugh us to scorn.”

Beckmann's Diary-notes, 4 July, 1946, p. 156; as cited in 'Portfolios', Alexander Dückers; in German Expressionist Prints and Drawings - Essays Vol 1.; published by Museum Associates, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California & Prestel-Verlag, Germany, 1986, p. 113
Beckmann himself castigated the folly of supposing that sexual gratification leads to fulfillment.
1940s

“Very worried and nerveux for 1944. Life is dark – as is death. Close 1943.”

Beckman's Diary, 31 December 1943, Amsterdam; as cited on: 'Arts in exile' http://kuenste-im-exil.de
1940s

“Put the picture away or, preferably, send it back to me, dear Valentin. If people cannot understand it is based on their inner engagement with these matters, then there is no point in showing the thing at all.”

In a letter to his art-dealer Curt Valentin, Amsterdam, 11 February 1938; as quoted in Max Beckmann, Stephan Lackner, Bonfini Press Corporation, Naefels, Switzerland, 1983, p. 52
1930s

“We're continually poring over plans, and the decision is difficult, but it's definitely coming soon. The idea with Barr is not bad and might convince me to take your advice, if B. really does get involved.”

In a letter from Amsterdam 15 February 1937, to Hans Swarzenski in Princeton, the Max Beckmann Archive, Christian Lenz; as quoted on: arts in exile http://kuenste-im-exil.de
In February 1937, his last hopes of a life in Germany had clearly faded, as he wrote to Hanns Swarzenski in Princeton on the 15th of the month. This quote refers to an invitation from Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Director of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and to the idea of emigrating to the USA, to escape Nazi-threat.
1930s

“[it is] amusing all the same, how the peacetime life we cursed and groaned about now elevates itself with iron logic to the status of paradise..”

letter of April 1915; in: Briefe im Kriege, pp. 33 (March 28, 1915), 64 (May 21, 1915); as quoted in 'Portfolios', Alexander Dückers; in German Expressionist Prints and Drawings - Essays Vol 1.; published by Museum Associates, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California & Prestel-Verlag, Germany, 1986, p. 110
1900s - 1920s

“.. [war] in itself is one of the manifestations of life, like disease, love, and lust. And just as I follow fear, disease, lust, love, and hate to their utmost limits, well, now I am trying war. It is all life, wonderfully various and rich in inspiration.”

Briefe im Kriege May 1915, p. 67; as quoted in 'Portfolios', Alexander Dückers; in German Expressionist Prints and Drawings - Essays Vol 1.; published by Museum Associates, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California & Prestel-Verlag, Germany, 1986, p. 79
1900s - 1920s

“My heart beats more for a rougher, more ordinary, more vulgar art that does not live in a poetic, fairy-tale dream but admits the fearful, the common, the magnificent, the ordinary, the banal grotesque in life. An art that can always be directly present to us when life is at its most real.. [ on the same day he noted:].. Martin thinks there will be a war. Russia England France against Germany. We agreed that it would be no bad thing for our rather demoralized present-day civilization if everyone's instincts and drives were to be harnessed to one cause..”

Beckmann's Diary, 9 January, 1909, in Leben in Berlin: Tagebuch, 1908-1909, ed. Hans Kinkel; R. Piper & Co., Munich and Zurich, 1983, pp. 22-23; as quoted in 'Portfolios', Alexander Dückers; in German Expressionist Prints and Drawings - Essays Vol 1.; published by Museum Associates, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California & Prestel-Verlag, Germany, 1986, p. 99
1900s - 1920s

“Even our own cadaver-bones shall not hinder us from standing our ground until the very last, proud and tired in the face of the black wall that surrounds us.”

Beckman's Diary, 10 October 1943, Amsterdam; as cited on: 'Arts in exile' http://kuenste-im-exil.de
1940s

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