MAX BECKMANN IN NEW YORK

An up close and personal look at the life and work of a major 20th-century artist The prominent German Expressionist painter Max Bec kmann (1884-1950) is known for allegorical, autobiographical works that capture the doom and grotesquerie of World War I and the sub sequent rise of Nazism. In 1937, under threat by the Nazi regime (which featured Beckmann's work prominently in the notorious Degene rate Art exhibition that year), he and his wife relocated, first to Amsterdam, then to St. Louis, and eventually to New York City, w here Bec...[Read more]