Max Beckmann
Max Beckmann
Max Beckmannwas a German painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor, and writer. Although he is classified as an Expressionist artist, he rejected both the term and the movement. In the 1920s, he was associated with the New Objectivity, an outgrowth of Expressionism that opposed its introverted emotionalism...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPainter
Date of Birth12 February 1884
CityLeipzig, Germany
CountryGermany
real what-matters secret
What matters is real love for things of the world outside us and for the deep secrets within us.
art play creative
Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play.
reality bridges invisible
I am seeking for the bridge which leans from the visible to the invisible through reality.
jobs heart order
Learn by heart the forms to be found in nature, so that you can use them like the notes in a musical composition. That is what these forms are for. Nature is a marvellous chaos, and it is our job and our duty to bring order into that chaos and - to perfect it.
spiritual healing events
When spiritual, metaphysical, material, or immaterial events come into my life, I can only fix them by way of painting.