Max Beckmann
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Max Carl Friedrich Beckmann was 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
Beckmann in 1922
Self-Portrait, House Gable in Background, drypoint, 1918
Self-Portrait with Horn, 1938
Birds’ Hell, 1937–1938
Degenerate art
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Degenerate art was a term adopted in the 1920s by the Nazi Party in Germany to describe modern art. During the dictatorship of Adolf Hitler, German modernist art, including many works of international
Max Beckmann
…School in Frankfurt. In 1937, the government confiscated more than 500 of his works from German museums, putting several on display in the notorious Degenerate Art exhibition in Munich. The day after Hitler's radio speech about degenerate art in 1937, Beckmann left Germany with his second wife, Quappi, for the…
Joseph Goebbels views the Degenerate Art Exhibition (1937).
![The Magdeburger Ehrenmal [de] (the Magdeburg cenotaph), by Ernst Barlach, was declared to be degenerate art due to the "deformity" and emaciation of t](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Barlach_Magdeburger_Ehrenmal.jpg/500px-Barlach_Magdeburger_Ehrenmal.jpg)
The Magdeburger Ehrenmal [de] (the Magdeburg cenotaph), by Ernst Barlach, was declared to be degenerate art due to the "deformity" and emaciation of the figures—corresponding to Nordau's theorized connection between "mental and physical degeneration".
A still from The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Albert Gleizes, 1912, Landschaft bei Paris, Paysage près de Paris, Paysage de Courbevoie, missing from Hannover since 1937