Self-Portrait in Words

by Beckmann, Max; Buenger, Barbara Copeland; Heller, Reinhold; Britt, David

• ISBN13: 9780226041353
• ISBN10: 0226041352
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-03-15
• Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr

Summary

One of the most important German artists of the twentieth century, Max Beckmann is known for the depth and sensuous force of his works, but little is known about his personal life. Self-Portrait in Words reveals Beckmann's experience of life from the first years of his career in Berlin and Paris through his final years in the United States. This collection of Beckmann's writings serves as a companion to his art and a testament to the complexities of his life. "Barbara Copeland Buenger . . . has done an excellent job of editing and annotating Beckmann's voluminous private and public writings."--Andrea Barnet, New York Times Book Review

Table of Contents

Abbreviations

List of Plates

Preface and Acknowledgments

Maps Introduction

Diary, August 14-September 20, 1903

Diary, December 6, 1903-January 6, 1904

Diary, January 6 or Afterward-March 9, 1904

Diary, April 1-May 7, 1904

Diary, December 26, 1908-April 4, 1909

Response to In Battle for Art: The Answer to the "Protest of German Artists"

"Thoughts on Timely and Untimely Art"

Diary, December 20, 1912-April 17, 1913

Statement for Exhibition at Hamburg Kunstverein, Max Beckmann (Gemalde), Walter Geffcken (Gemalde), Jules Pascin (Zeichnungen)

"The New Program"

Wartime Letters: East Prussia

Wartime Letters: Belgium (Courtrai, Roeselare, Ostende)

Wartime Letters: Roeselare, Wervicq, Brussels

Catalogue Foreword for Exhibition at I. B. Neumann Graphisches Kabinett, Berlin, Max Beckmann Graphik

"Creative Credo"

Text for Hell Portfolio

Contribution to "On the Value of Criticism: An Inquiry of Artists"

Ebbi: A Comedy

The Hotel: Drama in Four Acts

Letter for the Piper Almanach

Autobiography

"The Social Stance of the Artist by the Black Tightrope Walker"

"The Artist in the State"

Statement in the Catalogue of the Mannheim Kunsthalle Retrospective

Answer to Frankfurter Zeitung Questionnaire about Politics

"On My Painting"

Speech Given to His First Class in the United States, Washington University, St. Louis

"Letters to a Woman Painter"

Speech for Friends and Faculty during Commencement Week Activities, Washington University, St. Louis

"Can Painting Be Taught?

Beckmann's Answer"

Table of Monetary Equivalents

Notes

Index

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