Max Beckmann Trivia Questions

He never won a Nobel Prize. He was primarily a painter, though he wrote plays and diaries.

'Departure' was completed in 1932–33, while Beckmann was still in Germany. He fled to Amsterdam in 1937 after the Nazis labeled his work 'degenerate.'

Beckmann was associated with the New Objectivity movement, not Die Brücke. He rejected Expressionist labels.

The Nazis confiscated over 500 of his works and featured 10 in the 'Degenerate Art' show to mock modern art.

Beckmann created around 85 oil self-portraits. Rembrandt painted approximately 40, and Van Gogh about 36, totaling roughly 76. Thus, Beckmann's painted self-portraits outnumber theirs combined.

He was a professor at the Städelschule in Frankfurt from 1925 until the Nazis dismissed him in 1933.

He taught at the Art Institute of Chicago and Washington University, not Cranbrook. He died in New York in 1950.

He volunteered as a medical orderly in 1914 and suffered a nervous breakdown from the horrors he witnessed.