Beckmann was a prolific self-portraitist, producing at least twenty-seven.
German artists such as Otto Dix and Max Beckmann produced notable examples of expressionist portraiture.
You expect that by having
this“thing,” you will be better off than you are without it(Beckmann & Heckhausen, 2008).
For example, Max Beckmann complained of"one brazen impudence after another" by the new breed
of painters, and Liebermann obstructed a Secession exhibit featuring Henri Matisse.
Max Beckmann, who is sometimes called an expressionist although he never
considered himself part of any movement, was considered to be a verist and the most important artist of Neue Sachlichkeit.
As these artists- who included Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, and George Grosz- rejected
the self-involvement and romantic longings of the expressionists, Weimar intellectuals in general made a call to arms for public collaboration, engagement, and rejection of romantic idealism.
After a lull in the enthusiasm for still life during the 18th century, still life came to new heights in the 19th and 20th centuries and was taken up again
by well-known artists of their time such as Paul Cézanne, Georges Braque and Max Beckmann.