Max Beckmann
Germany (1884—1950)Beckmann studied at the Saxon Grand Ducal Art School in Weimar before moving to Berlin in 1904, where he exhibited with the Berlin Secession and joined the group in 1907. In 1914 he co-founded the Free Secession, while after World War I his work moved towards Expressionism. During the 1920s he gained international recognition through his paintings and illustrations and received the Reich Honor Prize for German Art. Following the rise of Nazism, he left Germany in 1937 for Amsterdam and eventually emigrated to New York in 1947.
