"On My Painting", by Max Beckmann

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]

Self-Portrait, 1911

Snow Landscape in the Moonlight, 1950

Moon Night by the Sea,1938

Portrait of Minna Beckmann-Tube, 1924

Lady with a Mirror, 1943

"The Egyptian", 1942

Self-portrait in a bar, 1942

The Liberated Man, 1937

Happy New Year 1917, 1917

The Night, 1919

Self-Portrait, 1901

Self-Portrait in Black, 1944

Self-Portrait with Soap Bubbles, ca 1900

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