"On My Painting", by Max Beckmann
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Self-Portrait in Florence, 1907
Extracts from:
Max Beckmann (1884-1950)
On My Painting, 1941
["On My Painting" was composed in 1938 at a crucial jucture in Beckmann's life, and was read by him at the opening of the Twentieth Century German Art exhibition." Source]
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Self-Portrait, 1911
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Snow Landscape in the Moonlight, 1950
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Moon Night by the Sea,1938
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Lady with a Mirror, 1943
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"The Egyptian", 1942
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Self-portrait in a bar, 1942
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The Liberated Man, 1937
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Happy New Year 1917, 1917
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The Night, 1919
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Self-Portrait, 1901
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Self-Portrait in Black, 1944
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Self-Portrait with Soap Bubbles, ca 1900