New York Sun

Even Though These Are Max Beckmann’s ‘Formative Years,’ His Self-Portraits Are Formidable

The German painter Max Beckmann (1884-1950) is likely best known for a series of sizable triptychs, canvases whose clustered images channel the medieval, the modern, the mythical, and the mundane.
The New Criterion

Under pressure

On “Max Beckmann: The Formative Years, 1915-1925” at Neue Galerie. For Beckmann, the trenches of the Western Front mirrored something of his own pitched battles with French modernism. He called Henri ...
The New York Times

For Max Beckmann, Art’s Ironist, Crisis and Rediscovery

A real vigor emerges in this exhibition at the Neue Galerie, which focuses on the painter’s unflinching Weimar scenes. By Jason Farago Before the war (the First World War, I mean; with so many wars ...
Hyperallergic

Nazis, New York, and Max Beckmann

Max Beckmann, “Self-Portrait in Blue Jacket” (1950), oil on canvas, 55 1/8 × 36 inches, Saint Louis Art Museum, Bequest of Morton D. May (© 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, ...