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| Other uniform titles: | Llorens Serra, Tomás, 1936-
Beckmann, Max, 1884-1950. Works. Selections.
Hammond, Paul, 1947 July 19-
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| Other authors / contributors: | Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, host institution.
CaixaForum (Barcelona, Spain), host institution.
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| ISBN: | 9788417173227
8417173226
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| Notes: | Catalog of an itinerant exhibition held at the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain, Oct. 25, 2018-Jan. 27, 2019, and at the CaixaForum, Barcelona, Spain, Feb. 21-May 26, 2019.
Bound.
Spanish bound and paperback editions also available (see our cards no. 4398288, EAN 9788417173210, and no. 4398289, EAN 9788417173203).
Max Beckmann (1884-1950), German painter.
Includes bibliographical references (page 209).
Text in English. Translated from Spanish.
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| Summary: | In the autumn of 2018 the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid devotes a monographic exhibition to Max Beckmann (Leipzig, 1884 ? New York, 1950), one of Germany?s leading 20th-century artists. Initially close to Expressionism and New Objectivity, Beckmann developed a unique and independent pictorial style of a realistic type but one filled with symbolic resonances, offering a powerful account of society of his day. Curated by Tomàs Llorens, the exhibition brings together more than 50 works, including paintings, lithographs and sculptures that cover Beckmann?s years in Germany from the period prior to World War I, when he first achieved public recognition, to the rise of National Socialism in the 1930s when he was expelled from the Frankfurt art school where he taught and was banned from exhibiting in public. The exhibition also focuses on the artist?s years in Amsterdam and the United States where he lived after he was obliged to leave Germany, based on four metaphors relating to exile, understood both literally and as the existential condition of modern man: Masks, which looks at the loss of identity associated with the condition of exile; Electric Babylon, which focuses on the modern city as the capital of exile; The long goodbye, which constructs a parallel between exile and death; and The Sea, a metaphor of the infinite, its powers of seduction and alienation.00Exhibition: Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Madrid, Spain (25.10.2018-27.01.2019).
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