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Book Review
Die Neue Sachlichkeit: Ein Jahrhundertjubiläum / The New Objectivity: A Centennial Anniversary
05/2025 | 1466 | 167
Pages: 508–10
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Reviewer:
Michalski, Sergiusz (Michalski, Sergiusz)
Subjects
artists:
Dix, Otto / Grosz, George / Beckmann, Max
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Kunsthalle Mannheim
styles:
Neue Sachlichkeit
Reviewed Items
styles:
Die Neue Sachlichkeit: Ein Jahrhundertjubiläum / The New Objectivity: A Centennial Anniversary Edited by Inge Herold and Johan Holten. 408 pp. incl. numerous col. + b. & w. ills. (Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin, 2025), €56. ISBN 978–3–422–80250–6. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
7. Russisches Mädchen mit Puderdose, by Lotte Laserstein. 1928. Oil on canvas, 31.7 by 41 cm. (Städel Museum, Frankfurt).
Attributed works:
8. Turner, by Gerhard Keil. 1939. Oil on canvas, 215.5 by 155.5 cm. (Albertinum, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden; Scala, Florence).
Exhibition Review
Passion and Fervour
03/2021 | 1416 | 163
Pages: 275-278
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Reviewer:
Stiegemann, Christoph (Stiegemann, Christoph)
Subjects
artists:
Kirchner, Ernst Ludwig / Barlach, Ernst / Grünewald, Matthias / Baldung, Hans / Dürer, Albrecht / Paolo Fiammingo
artists:
Dix, Otto / Goldin, Nan / Mendieta, Ana / Beckmann, Max / Fuseli, Henry
artists:
De Bruyckere, Berlinde / Lassnig, Maria
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
LWL - Museum für Kunst und Kultur, Münster, Germany
subjects:
Emotion / Love / Violence
works:
Laocoön (Vatican Museums, Rome)
Reviewed Items
works:
Passion and Fervour LWL – Museum für Kunst und Kultur, Münster 9th October 2020– 14th February 2021 | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
10. Study for a self-portrait, by Henry Fuseli. 1780s. Black-andwhite chalk with ink inscription, 27 by 19.4 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London; exh. LWL – Museum für Kunst und Kultur, Münster).
Attributed works:
8. The fruit of love, from the series Love Scenes, by Pauwels Franck, called Paolo Fiammingo. 1585– 89. Oil on canvas, 158.7 by 257.3 cm. (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna; exh. LWL – Museum für Kunst und Kultur, Münster).
Attributed works:
9. Pietà, by Berlinde de Bruyckere. 2007–08. Wax, cushions, wood, iron and epoxy, 126 by 90 by 188 cm. (Private collection; © Berlinde De Bruyckere; courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth; exh. LWL – Museum für Kunst und Kultur, Münster; photograph Mirjam Devriendt).
Exhibition Review
Max Beckmann: feminine–masculine
01/2021 | 1414 | 163
Pages: 75-77
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Reviewer:
Wasensteiner, Lucy (Wasensteiner, Lucy )
Subjects
artists:
Beckmann, Max
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
subjects:
German art / Modernism / Portraits / Figure paintings / masculinities
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Max Beckmann: feminine– masculine Hamburger Kunsthalle 25th September 2020– 24th January 2021 | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
24. Self-portrait Florence, by Max Beckmann. 1907. Oil on canvas, 98 by 90 cm. (Hamburger Kunsthalle).
Attributed works:
25. Early men – primeval landscape, by Max Beckmann. 1939, reworked 1947–48. Gouache and ink, 49.8 by 64.5 cm. (Private collection; exh. Hamburger Kunsthalle; photograph Daxer & Marschall, Munich).
Attributed works:
26. Portrait of a Romanian woman (Portrait of Dr Heidel), by Max Beckmann. 1922. Oil on canvas, 100 by 65 cm. (Hamburger Kunsthalle).
Book Review
Du bist Faust: Goethe’s Drama in der Kunst. Edited by Roger Diederen and Thorsten Valk
09/2018 | 1386 | 160
Pages: 802-803
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Reviewer:
Bailey, Gauvin Alexander (Bailey, Gauvin Alexander)
Subjects
art literature:
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
artists:
Gounod, Charles / Delacroix, Eugène / Cameron, Julia Margaret / Mapplethorpe, Robert / Fürhofer, Philipp / Naeke, Gustav Heinrich / Alix, Yves / Carus, Carl Gustav / Krafft, Johann Peter / Max, Gabriel / Scheffer, Ary / Domínguez Sánchez, Manuel / Dagnan-Bouveret, Pascal Adolphe Jean / Kollwitz, Käthe / Kiefer, Anselm / Falero, Luis Ricardo / Thierry, J. D. / Beckmann, Max
dates:
1800-1899 / 1900-1999 / 2010-2019
media:
Paintings / Drawings / Sculpture / Photographs / Art objects
museums and institutions:
Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich, Germany
places:
Germany / Munich
subjects:
Faust / Theatre (discipline) / Theatre design / Politics / Nationalism / World War (1914-1918) / World War (1939-1945) / Holocaust (1939-1945) / Nazism / Fascism / Opera / Occultism / Eroticism
Illustrations
Attributed works:
4. Faust and Margaret in the garden, by Ary Scheffer. 1846. Panel, 216.5 by 135 cm. (National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne).
Exhibition Review
Aftermath: Art in the Wake of World War One. Tate Britain, London
09/2018 | 1386 | 160
Pages: 788-790
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Reviewer:
Vaizey, Marina (Vaizey, Marina)
Subjects
artists:
Nevinson, C. R. W. / Picasso, Pablo / Moore, Henry Spencer, 1898-1986 / Beckmann, Max / Braque, Georges / Epstein, Jacob, 1880-1959 / Lehmbruck, Wilhelm / Ernst, Max / Barlach, Ernst / Nash, Paul / Orpen, William / Spencer, Stanley / Mare, André / Grosz, George / Tonks, Henry
artists:
Lenk, Franz / Jouve, Paul / Birkle, Albert / Branson, Clive
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Paintings / Sculpture / Photographs / Videos / Documents / Pastels / Drawings
museums and institutions:
Tate Britain, London, Great Britain
places:
Great Britain / London
subjects:
World War (1914-1918) / World War (1939-1945) / Politics / War Artists / Collections, Public / Archives / Diaries / Correspondence / Soldiers / Nazism / Fascism / Class / Futurism / Abstract art / Figurative art / Neo-classicism / Military art and science / Destruction / Dada / Surrealism / Ruins / War memorials / British painting / French painting / German painting
Illustrations
Attributed works:
22. The floating one, by Ernst Barlach. 1927, cast 1987. Bronze, 213 by 74 by 68 cm. (SchleswigHolsteinische Landesmuseen Schloss Gottorf, Schleswig; exh. Tate Britain, London).
Attributed works:
23. Grey day, by George Grosz. 1921. Canvas, 115 by 80 cm. (Nationalgalerie, Berlin; exh. Tate Britain, London).
Attributed works:
24. Wire, by Paul Nash. 1918–19. Watercolour, chalk and ink on paper, 48.6 by 63.5 cm. (Imperial War Museums, London; exh. Tate Britain, London).
Book Review
Gurlitt: Status Report. With contributions by Matthias Freher, Georg Kreis, et al.
05/2018 | 1382 | 160
Pages: 436-437
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Reviewer:
Chojnacka, Monica (Chojnacka, Monica)
Subjects
artists:
Grosz, George / Nolde, Emil / Munch, Edvard / Beckmann, Max / Manet, Edouard / Delacroix, Eugène / Seurat, Georges / Rodin, Auguste / Dürer, Albrecht / Gauguin, Paul / Maillol, Aristide / Kokoschka, Oskar / Forain, Jean Louis
dates:
1700-1799 / 1800-1899 / 1900-1999 / 2000-2009 / 2010-2019
media:
Paintings
museums and institutions:
Kunstmuseum, Bern, Switzerland / Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle, Bonn, Germany
places:
Switzerland / Bern / Germany / Bonn
subjects:
Nazism / Entartete Kunst / Provenance / Restitution / Exhibition catalogues
Illustrations
Attributed works:
8. Sea in stormy weather, by Edouard Manet. 1873. Canvas, 55 by 72.5 cm. (Kunstmuseum Bern).
Publication Received
Max Beckmann. The Still Lifes. Edited by Karin Schick and Hubertus Gassner, with contributions from Anna Heinze, Simon Kelly, Bärbel Küster, Karin Schick, Uwe M. Schneede, Heike Schreiber and Christiane Zeiller.
05/2016 | 1358 | 158
Pages: 375
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Reviewer:
Vaizey, Marina (Vaizey, Marina)
Subjects
artists:
Beckmann, Max
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
subjects:
German painting / Still lifes / Exhibition catalogues
Article
Modern German art in British collections: reflections on some recent exhibitions
10/2014 | 1339 | 156
Pages: 670-674
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Author:
Calvocoressi, Richard (Calvocoressi, Richard)
Subjects
artists:
Baselitz, Georg / Goltzius, Hendrick / Beckmann, Max / Dix, Otto / Kiefer, Anselm
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Tate Modern, London, Great Britain / British Museum, London, Great Britain / Royal Academy of Arts, London, Great Britain / National Gallery, London, Great Britain
places:
Great Britain / England / London
subjects:
German painting / German sculpture / Prints / Collections, Public / Exhibitions / Modern Art / Acquisitions
Illustrations
Attributed works:
38. Partisan III, by George Baselitz (British Museum, London)
Attributed works:
39. Hercules killing Cacus, by Hendrick Goltzius (Collection of George Baselitz; exh. Royal Academy of Arts, London)
Attributed works:
40. Parsifal III, by Anselm Kiefer (Tate, London)
Attributed works:
41. Carnival (Fastnacht), by Max Beckmann (Tate, London)
Attributed works:
42. The end of the twentieth century, by Joseph Beuys (Tate, London)
Attributed works:
43. Moonlit landscape, by Caspar David Friedrich (Morgan Library & Museum, New York; exh. Courtauld Gallery, London)
Exhibition Review
Max Beckmann. Basel
02/2012 | 1307 | 154
Pages: 144-146
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Reviewer:
Rainbird, Sean (Rainbird, Sean)
Subjects
artists:
Beckmann, Max
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland
places:
Switzerland / Basel
print:
Beckmann, Max
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Max Beckmann – The Landscapes | institution: Kunstmuseum
Illustrations
Attributed works:
68. The harbour of Genoa, by Max Beckmann. 1927. Canvas, 90.5 by 169.5 cm. (Saint Louis Art Museum; exh. Kunstmuseum Basel).
Exhibition Review
Max Beckmann. Frankfurt
02/2012 | 1307 | 154
Pages: 144-146
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Reviewer:
Rainbird, Sean (Rainbird, Sean)
Subjects
artists:
Beckmann, Max
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
places:
Germany / Frankfurt
print:
Beckmann, Max
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Beckmann and American | institution: Städel Museum
Illustrations
Attributed works:
69. Portrait of Walter Barker, by Max Beckmann. 1948. Canvas, 114 by 63.5 cm. (Milwaukee Art Museum; exh. Städel Museum, Frankfurt).
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