Max Beckmann
Beckmann Is Back
Courtesy of Neue Galerie New York.
Harsh and lonely: Beckmann’s Self-Portrait with
Horn (1938).
Horn (1938).
Felix Nussbaum’s Self in Concentration Camp (1940), a painting included in the exhibition “Max Beckmann: Self-Portrait With Horn” at the Neue Galerie, is as bleak as the title implies. Wearing a wool cap, a tattered jacket and a lean beard, the artist looks askance with steely distrust. In the background, a figure defecates into a large metal can. There’s barbed wire, a sky the color of steel wool and an air of Boschian portent.
Bosch’s hell couldn’t compare with Hitler’s. While studying in Rome, Nussbaum, a German Jew, heard Hitler’s minister of propaganda advocate for the Nazi ideal of art; Nussbaum realized soon enough that neither he nor his paintings fit the standard. read more »
Met Gets Convincingly Contemporary With Neo Rauch’s Dreamscapes
Wolfgang Stahr
Neo Rauch, an international art star who merits the hype, is painting six canvases exclusively for the Met.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has been attempting to fit contemporary art within its walls for some read more »
All That Glitters Isn’t Gold: Weimar Visages Laid Bare
MoMA, Ny/Licensed by SCALA/Art Resource, NY
Otto Dix
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Glitter and Doom: German Portraits from the 1920s is an exhib read more »
Bearden’s Collages Encompass Bruegel’s Babel, Harlem Blues
Courtesy of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, LLC, New York, NY
Romare Bearden
In his essay What the Sixties Meant to Me, the painter Rackstraw Downes writes of an encounter with read more »
Dix and Beckmann: Two Painters Convey The Horror of War
Courtesy of Neue Galerie New York
Not a pretty picture: Otto Dix's Skull, 1924.
Given the horrific history of Germany in the modern era, it was not to be expected that German art f read more »
Beckmann, Picasso: Painters Reunited For the First Time
In a rare collaboration between two elite art dealerships, Richard L. Feigen and Co. read more »
Oh, That Weltschmerz! German Expressionism About Dark, Not Light
Artists, critics, art collectors and curators for whom the delights of French painting remain a stan read more »
Dense, Humane and Moral, Bearden Sets a Fine Example
The Romare Bearden retrospective now at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., will, after read more »
Currently Hanging
Dense, Humane and Moral,Bearden Sets a Fine Example
read more »
Max Beckmann Still Shocks Viewers With His Greatness
It has always been a conundrum for established opinion in the New York art world: how to come to ter read more »
Weimar Era's Schad, Cynical, Sardonic, No Max Beckmann
The art, literature and music of Weimar Germany in the 1920's have long been a subject of both criti read more »
