Max Beckmann Death Cause and Date

Max Beckmann's Death

Born (Birthday) February 12, 1884

Death Date December 28, 1950

Age of Death 66 years

Cause of Death Heart Attack

Profession Painter

The painter Max Beckmann died at the age of 66. Here is all you want to know, and more!

Biography - A Short Wiki

German artist associated with both the Expressionism and New Objectivity movements. He was prolific in the area of self-portraits, painting nearly as many as Rembrandt and Picasso.

He and his second wife, Quappi, left Germany for Amsterdam after Hitler denounced his work and the work of fellow modern artists as degenerate.

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On my left the shooting had the sharp explosion of the infantry artillery, on my right could be heard the sporadic cannon shots thundering from the front, and up above the sky was clear and the sun bright.

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I think only of objects: of a leg or an arm, of the wonderful sense of foreshortening, breaking through the plane, of the division of space, of the combination of straight lines in relation to curved ones.

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There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality.

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I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life.

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Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement… for transfiguration, not for the sake of play.

Max Beckmann Death Cause and Date