Max Beckmann. Uwe M. Schneede
In French. Hardcover, 304 pages, 31.50 x 24.50 x 2.90 cm. Hazan, 2009
With this richly illustrated monograph, Uwe M. Schneede presents us with the first comprehensive exegesis of Beckmann's work and life in more than thirty years. In doing so, he is the first to put the historical and autobiographical core of Beckmann's paintings always in the foreground. The painter, finally described as a "degenerate" by the National Socialists and pushed into exile, had already suffered the First World War and the crises of the Weimar Republic in his own skin. Schneede, for whom Max Beckmann's art is a large-format, grandiose synthesis of modernity with its contradictions, shows how these experiences are translated in a condensed form in his paintings. It analyzes the pictorial means that the artist used in the different phases of his work to interpret his time in his own original way.
