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Max Beckmann Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
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Original works by Max Beckmann available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas NEW!
(There is a "Download" link for zooming in on some works, but confusingly this may take a while to become active)
Max Beckmann at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
Still Life with Fallen Candles, 1929
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Many works online
Guggenheim Museum, New York City
2 works online
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW!
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
Paintings collection online
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Includes biographical information about the artist
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh NEW!
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Most but not all artists in the NGA database have works online
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
Still Life with Saxophones
Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
Self-portrait with a stiff hat
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Ackland Art Museum at the University of North Carolina
Akron Art Museum, Ohio NEW!
(Click on the "View objects by this artist" link)
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Hotel Lobby, 1950
Art Collection of the Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango, Colombia
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham, UK
Berkeley Art Museum + Pacific Film Archive, California
The Martyrdom (Das Martyrium)
Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University, Illinois
2 works online (Note that this site opens each work in a new window)
Brooklyn Museum, New York City
Bruce Museum of Arts and Science, Connecticut
Paris Society (Gesellschaft Paris), 1931
Centre Pompidou, Paris (in French) 
Information about the 2002 exhibition Max Beckmann: un peintre dans l'Histoire
Christchurch Art Gallery / Te Puna O Waiwhetu, New Zealand
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany (in German)
Guilford College Art Gallery, North Carolina
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. NEW!
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany (in German)
Kunsthaus Zurich
Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
Alphabetically under "B"
Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany
Kabarettistinnen, 1943
Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf, Germany
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
MacKenzie Art Gallery, Saskatchewan
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
8 works
Musée d'Unterlinden, Colmar, France (mostly in French)
La petite opération, 1915
Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Brazil (in Portuguese)
Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf
Quappi in Blue and Grey, 1944
Museum of Modern Art, New York City - Provenance Research Project
5 works by Beckmann
Neue Galerie Museum for German and Austrian Art, New York City
Self-Portrait with Horn, 1938
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma
In the Tram, 1922
Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Portland Museum of Art, Maine
Click thumbnail #3
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, Saint Louis, Missouri
Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri
Many works online
San Diego Museum of Art, California NEW!
Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago
Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas
Self-Portrait, woodcut
Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany
The Market Crier (Self-Portrait of Beckmann at the Circus), 1921
Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Germany ( in German)
Die Familie (Familie Beckmann), lithograph, 1919
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (in German)
Journey on a Fish
State Museums of Berlin
Stiftung Moritzburg, Moritzburg, Germany (in German)
Max Beckmann and Minna Beckmann-Tube, 1909
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
(Images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image)
University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City
University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City
Karneval (Carnival), 1943
Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany (in German)
Walker Art Center, Minnesota
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Art Signature Dictionary NEW!
Christie's Past Sale Archive
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Max Beckmann at The Athenaeum
2 works online
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
(a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)
Humanities Web
USC Annenberg School for Communication
Additional Image Search Tools:
(SafeSearch set to "strict"; go to Advanced Search (Flickr/Google) or Preferences (Bing) to change)
Miscellaneous Sites:
Art of the First World War
The BBC
max beckmann, tate modern
The Legacy Project
"A gathering place for people interested in the enduring legacies of the many violent traumas of the 20th century"
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Max Beckmann 
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info
Art + Auction Magazine
Artist Dossier: Max Beckmann
Artcyclopedia
"Mad Max (Max Beckmann at the Museum of Modern Art)"
Artnet Magazine
Self-portrait with Horn, 1938
Artnet Magazine
Max Beckmann in Exile
PBS
A look at the life and work of the artist
Planet Deutsche
Article on Beckmann and his connection to the Weimar Era
Tate Magazine
Leon Golub on Max Beckmann
The New York Observer
"Max Beckmann Still Shocks Viewers With His Greatness", article by Hilton Kramer
The New York Observer
"Beckmann, Picasso: Painters Reunited For the First Time", article by Hilton Kramer
The New York Observer
"Dix and Beckmann: Two Painters Convey The Horror of War", article by Hilton Kramer
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
| Look Inside Books: | Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader. | |
| Search Inside Books: | Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy.
Note: Some "Search Inside" features are limited to people signed in to an account which has previously made a purchase at Amazon. | |
search inside
Self-Portrait in Words: Collected Writings and Statements, 1903-1950
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Beckmann
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Max Beckmann and the Self
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