PUBLISHER
Hatje Cantz

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 9 x 11.5 in. / 416 pgs / 110 color / 160 duotone.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 7/1/2007
Out of print

DISTRIBUTION
D.A.P. Exclusive
Catalog: SPRING 2007 p. 52

PRODUCT DETAILS
ISBN 9783775718387 TRADE
List Price: $75.00 CAD $90.00

AVAILABILITY
Not available

TERRITORY
NA LA

EXHIBITION SCHEDULE

Munich
Pinakothek der Moderne, 09/13/07-01/06/08

Amsterdam
Van Gogh Museum, starting 04/07

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Max Beckmann: Exile in Amsterdam

Text by Felix Billeter, Christian Lenz, Marco Pesarese, Beatrice von Bormann, Christiane Zeiller.

Between 1937 and 1947, while he was in exile in Amsterdam, the German-born painter Max Beckmann (1884-1950) made approximately a third of the work he would create in his lifetime. When he moved on, it was to accept an appointment as a professor at Washington University in St. Louis. Before that peacetime respite, he countered Europe's threatening instability with intense concentration. Max Beckmann in Amsterdam opens with the last work he completed in Germany, a triptych titled Versuchung (Temptation), and dedicates the balance of its pages to the paintings and drawings from his years in Holland. These widely varied responses to his immediate historical and biographical situation show horror of developments in Nazi Germany and constant physical and mental tension created by his wartime surroundings. As a body of work, Beckmann's Amsterdam portfolio is not only of great importance in understanding his motivations and methods, and in itself a record of the most productive phase in his life, but also a critical examination of a crucial moment in twentieth-century history.