Max Beckmann Updates

❝ Degenerate art: Artists in the 1937 Munich show (61 person items)

" His fortunes changed with the rise to power of Adolf Hitler, whose dislike of Modern Art quickly led to its suppression by the state. In 1933, the Nazi government called Beckmann a "cultural Bolshevik" and dismissed him from his teaching position at the Art School in Frankfurt. In 1937 more than 500 of his works were confiscated from German museums, and several of these works were put on display in the notorious Degenerate Art exhibition in Munich. The day after Hitler's infamous radio speech "

100 Great Paintings (137 art items)

" Actors - Triptych (1941–42)"