Max Beckmann art links 

Original works by Max Beckmann available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
 
 

Art Institute of Chicago

Max Beckmann at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Many works by Max Beckmann

Guggenheim Museum, New York City

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
Adam And Eve, bronze sculpture, 1936
Laboratory, 1946
Still Life With Cello And Bass Fiddle, 1950

Max Beckmann at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Self-Portrait with a Stylus, drypoint, 1916

Max Beckmann at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
The Last Ones, lithograph, 1919

Max Beckmann at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Beginning, 1949 (Zoom)

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Paintings collection online

Museum of Modern Art, New York City
17 works by Max Beckmann online

National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
12 works online

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
Still Life with Saxophones

Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
Self-portrait with a stiff hat

Ackland Art Museum at the University of North Carolina

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Hotel Lobby, 1950

Art Collection of the Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango, Colombia

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham, UK

Berkeley Art Museum + Pacific Film Archive, California
The Martyrdom (Das Martyrium)

Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University, Illinois
2 works online (Note that this site opens each work in a new window)

Brooklyn Museum, New York City   NEW!

Centre Pompidou, Paris (in French)  
Information about the 2002 exhibition Max Beckmann: un peintre dans l'Histoire

Christchurch Art Gallery / Te Puna O Waiwhetu, New Zealand   NEW!

Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
Self Portrait, drypoint, 1918

Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany (in German)  

Guilford College Art Gallery, North Carolina

Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Information about the 2007-2008 exhibition, "Paintings by Max Beckmann from the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich"

Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts

Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington - Provenance Research Project
7 works online

Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana

Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany (in German)  

Kunsthaus Zurich

Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
Alphabetically under "B"

Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf, Germany

Max Beckmann in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database

MacKenzie Art Gallery, Saskatchewan

Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Les Artistes mit Gemüse (Artists with Vegetable), 1943

Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
8 works

Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Brazil (in Portuguese)  

Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf
Quappi in Blue and Grey, 1944

Museum of Modern Art, New York City - Provenance Research Project
5 works by Beckmann

Neue Galerie Museum for German and Austrian Art, New York City
Click "Collection" > "View the collection" > "Artists" > "Max Beckmann"

Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma
In the Tram, 1922

Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna

Philadelphia Museum of Art
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Portland Museum of Art, Maine
Click thumbnail #3

Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey   NEW!

Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, Saint Louis, Missouri

Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri
Many works online

San Diego Museum of Art, California
Requires Flash: Click on "Artist Index", then on "B"

Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago

Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas
Self-Portrait, woodcut

Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany
The Market Crier (Self-Portrait of Beckmann at the Circus), 1921

Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Germany ( in German)  
Die Familie (Familie Beckmann), lithograph, 1919

State Museums of Berlin

Stiftung Moritzburg, Moritzburg, Germany (in German)   NEW!  
Max Beckmann and Minna Beckmann-Tube, 1909

Tate Gallery, London, UK

Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid   NEW!
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University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City   NEW!
Karnival Triptych, 1943 and

Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany (in German)  

Walker Art Center, Minnesota

Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania
Minette, etching

 

Max Beckmann at The Athenaeum
2 works online

World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)

Artyzm

Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)  
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Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)  

El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)  

Humanities Web

University of Michigan SILS Art Image Browser

USC Annenberg School for Communication

 

Art of the First World War

Artarchiv Sample Artist Signatures
Scroll down to signature 28

The BBC
max beckmann, tate modern

The Legacy Project
"A gathering place for people interested in the enduring legacies of the many violent traumas of the 20th century"

 

Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Max Beckmann  
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 75-word preview only. Troubleshooting

Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt)  

Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)  
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.

Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info

Artcyclopedia
"Mad Max (Max Beckmann at the Museum of Modern Art)"

Artnet Magazine
Self-portrait with Horn, 1938

Artnet Magazine
Max Beckmann in Exile

Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes)   NEW!  

PBS
A look at the life and work of the artist

Planet Deutsche
Article on Beckmann and his connection to the Weimar Era

Tate Magazine
Leon Golub on Max Beckmann

The New York Observer
Article by Hilton Kramer: Max Beckmann Still Shocks Viewers With His Greatness

The New York Observer
Article by Hilton Kramer: Beckmann, Picasso: Painters Reunited For the First Time

The New York Observer
Article by Hilton Kramer: Dix and Beckmann: Two Painters Convey The Horror of War

Time Magazine
"Psychological Realist in a Bad Age", 1985 article by Robert Hughes

Time Magazine
"Scenes of Hellish Heat: Exiled from a Collapsing World, Max Beckmann Stunningly Allegorized it", 1996 article by Robert Hughes

"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon Look Inside Books: Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader.              Search Inside Books: Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy. Note: Some "Search Inside" features are limited to people signed in to an account which has previously made a purchase at Amazon.   search inside Self-Portrait in Words: Collected Writings and Statements, 1903-1950 look inside Beckmann look inside Max Beckmann and the Self