Facts about Max Beckmann

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   From 1947 to 1950, Beckmann served as director of painting at Washington University in Saint Louis, his only teaching position in the United States after emigrating from Europe.

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   Beckmann taught at the Frankfurt Städel School from 1925 until his dismissal by the Nazi regime in 1933, mentoring a generation of German artists during the Weimar period's most creatively fertile years.

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   Between 1925 and 1933, Max Beckmann created approximately 800 paintings and prints, establishing himself as one of Weimar Germany's most prolific and influential expressionist artists before forced exile.

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   The artist's 1950 triptych Argonauts, completed just months before his death at age 66, marked Beckmann's final major work and synthesized mythological themes with his expressionist visual language.

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   Beckmann's 1938 triptych Departure, measuring 215 by 115 centimeters per panel, was exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York just months after the artist fled Nazi Germany.

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   After suffering a severe beating by Nazi brownshirts in 1933, Beckmann developed a psychological condition that profoundly influenced his artistic style for the remainder of his life.

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   In 1925, Max Beckmann's painting The Night sold for 3,000 Reichsmarks, establishing him as a commercially successful German Expressionist artist before the Nazi regime's rise to power.

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   During his exile from Nazi Germany, Max Beckmann created over 700 paintings and prints between 1933 and 1950 despite severe artistic suppression.

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