After several days looking at outstanding photographic work, I'd like to spotlight one of the great painters of the early to mid twentieth century, Max Beckmann. In addition to being a brilliant colourist, Beckmann developed a very personal visual language -like Picasso-drawing on mythological and historical themes that he used to comment on contemporary issues afflicting the Wiemar Republic. When his work was later labelled 'degenerate' by the Nazis, he fled Germany for Holland. After WW2 he moved to the USA where he taught, wrote and continued to paint.
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