1931, Max Beckmann, Reclining Woman with Book and Irises -- Belvedere Palace (Vienna)
From the museum label: Max Beckmann's experience as a medical orderly during World War I left him traumatized. It led him to embrace a figurative style of painting in which he sought "transcendental objectivity." With a good network of contacts, he enjoyed great success in the Weimar Republic, which came to an abrupt end when the Nazis came to power. In 1933 he was dismissed from his position as professor at the Frankfurt Städelschule, and his works in German museums were seized. The Degenerate Art exhibition, which opened in Munich on July 19, 1937, featured a number of his works, but by that time Max and Mathilde Beckmann had already fled to Amsterdam, where they spent the war years before emigrating to New York in 1947.
1931, Max Beckmann, Reclining Woman with Book and Irises -- Belvedere Palace (Vienna)
From the museum label: Max Beckmann's experience as a medical orderly during World War I left him traumatized. It led him to embrace a figurative style of painting in which he sought "transcendental objectivity." With a good network of contacts, he enjoyed great success in the Weimar Republic, which came to an abrupt end when the Nazis came to power. In 1933 he was dismissed from his position as professor at the Frankfurt Städelschule, and his works in German museums were seized. The Degenerate Art exhibition, which opened in Munich on July 19, 1937, featured a number of his works, but by that time Max and Mathilde Beckmann had already fled to Amsterdam, where they spent the war years before emigrating to New York in 1947.