{"id":8848,"date":"2024-11-13T17:02:46","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T16:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kunsthalle-bielefeld.de\/kb-kosmos\/max-beckmann-2\/"},"modified":"2025-02-17T16:46:49","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T15:46:49","slug":"max-beckmann-2","status":"publish","type":"digitorial","link":"https:\/\/kunsthalle-bielefeld.de\/en\/kb-kosmos\/max-beckmann-2\/","title":"Max Beckmann","content":"","excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":{"alt":"A woman is lying on her side, wearing a dress with a yellow and black zigzag pattern and a white turban. The playing child lies close to her bare chest, holding a rattle in her left hand. They are surrounded by numerous stylized plants. Everything is outlined with rough black lines. The colors light pink, purple and green dominate.","title":"Beckmann Mutter mit spielendem Kind 1946_Webseite_KB Kosmos","caption":"Max Beckmann, Mother with playing child, 1946\nKunsthalle Bielefeld, Photo: Philipp Ottend\u00f6rfer","width":1500,"height":801,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/kunsthalle-bielefeld.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Beckmann-Mutter-mit-spielendem-Kind-1946_Webseite_KB-Kosmos-150x80.jpg","small":"https:\/\/kunsthalle-bielefeld.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Beckmann-Mutter-mit-spielendem-Kind-1946_Webseite_KB-Kosmos-300x160.jpg","medium":"https:\/\/kunsthalle-bielefeld.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Beckmann-Mutter-mit-spielendem-Kind-1946_Webseite_KB-Kosmos-768x410.jpg","large":"https:\/\/kunsthalle-bielefeld.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Beckmann-Mutter-mit-spielendem-Kind-1946_Webseite_KB-Kosmos-1140x609.jpg","full":"https:\/\/kunsthalle-bielefeld.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Beckmann-Mutter-mit-spielendem-Kind-1946_Webseite_KB-Kosmos.jpg"},"srcset":"https:\/\/kunsthalle-bielefeld.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Beckmann-Mutter-mit-spielendem-Kind-1946_Webseite_KB-Kosmos-300x160.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kunsthalle-bielefeld.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Beckmann-Mutter-mit-spielendem-Kind-1946_Webseite_KB-Kosmos-1140x609.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/kunsthalle-bielefeld.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Beckmann-Mutter-mit-spielendem-Kind-1946_Webseite_KB-Kosmos-150x80.jpg 150w, https:\/\/kunsthalle-bielefeld.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Beckmann-Mutter-mit-spielendem-Kind-1946_Webseite_KB-Kosmos-768x410.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kunsthalle-bielefeld.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Beckmann-Mutter-mit-spielendem-Kind-1946_Webseite_KB-Kosmos-520x278.jpg 520w, https:\/\/kunsthalle-bielefeld.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Beckmann-Mutter-mit-spielendem-Kind-1946_Webseite_KB-Kosmos.jpg 1500w"},"template":"","digitorialkategorien":[86,91,87],"class_list":["post-8848","digitorial","type-digitorial","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","digitorialkategorien-hybrid-creature","digitorialkategorien-living-together","digitorialkategorien-seeking-position"],"acf":{"blocks_content":"   <div class=\"blocks-content container\">\n                                                                              \n         \n         <div class=\" mb-475 mb-sm-5 mb-lg-55\">\n            <div class=\"row justify-content-center the-content \">\n\n               <!-- Headings -->\n                                                                           \n                                             <div class=\"col-12 col-sm-10 text-center\">\n                           <figure class=' -has-caption' ><img src='https:\/\/kunsthalle-bielefeld.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Beckmann-Mutter-mit-spielendem-Kind-1946_Webseite_KB-Kosmos-1140x609.jpg' srcset='https:\/\/kunsthalle-bielefeld.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Beckmann-Mutter-mit-spielendem-Kind-1946_Webseite_KB-Kosmos-300x160.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kunsthalle-bielefeld.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Beckmann-Mutter-mit-spielendem-Kind-1946_Webseite_KB-Kosmos-1140x609.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/kunsthalle-bielefeld.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Beckmann-Mutter-mit-spielendem-Kind-1946_Webseite_KB-Kosmos-150x80.jpg 150w, https:\/\/kunsthalle-bielefeld.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Beckmann-Mutter-mit-spielendem-Kind-1946_Webseite_KB-Kosmos-768x410.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kunsthalle-bielefeld.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Beckmann-Mutter-mit-spielendem-Kind-1946_Webseite_KB-Kosmos-520x278.jpg 520w, https:\/\/kunsthalle-bielefeld.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Beckmann-Mutter-mit-spielendem-Kind-1946_Webseite_KB-Kosmos.jpg 1500w' sizes='(min-width: 576px) 66vw, 94vw'  alt='A woman is lying on her side, wearing a dress with a yellow and black zigzag pattern and a white turban. The playing child lies close to her bare chest, holding a rattle in her left hand. They are surrounded by numerous stylized plants. Everything is outlined with rough black lines. The colors light pink, purple and green dominate.' width='1140' height='609'  loading='lazy' ><figcaption class='col-12 col-xs-8 col-sm-8 px-sm-3 px-xl-4 mx-auto'>Max Beckmann, Mother with playing child, 1946\nKunsthalle Bielefeld, Photo: Philipp Ottend\u00f6rfer<\/figcaption><\/figure>                        <\/div>\n                                       \n                              <!-- End Switch Layout  -->\n\n            <\/div>\n         <\/div>\n                                                                                       \n         \n         <div class=\" mb-475 mb-sm-5 mb-lg-55\">\n            <div class=\"row justify-content-center the-content  font-l sans-serif\">\n\n               <!-- Headings -->\n                                 <div class=\"col-12\">\n                     <p>With its bright, flat colours and rough black lines, the painting looks like a graphic. The mother does not look in our direction, but devotes all her attention to her child. The artist allows us to share an intimate moment between mother and child, opening up a space for memories of our own childhood. The mother appears larger than life and thus takes on a symbolic, protective character. She is portrayed in an informal, natural way in a natural setting. This leads to an association with \u2018Mother Earth\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Max Beckmann&#8217;s painting combines several social and socio-critical themes and invites us to reflect on coexistence in general &#8211; between humans and nature, and between humans. What role do we actually want to play here?<\/p>\n                  <\/div>\n\n                              <!-- End Switch Layout  -->\n\n            <\/div>\n         <\/div>\n                                                                                       \n         \n         <div class=\" mb-475 mb-sm-5 mb-lg-55\">\n            <div class=\"row justify-content-center the-content \">\n\n               <!-- Headings -->\n                                                                                          \n                     <div class=\"content-accordion | col-12 py-3\">\n                        <div id=\"content-accordion-2\">\n                                                         <div class=\"akkordeon-item | bg-gray-200 rounded-4 mb-1\" >   <!-- head -->\n      <h3 class='akkordeon-header font-xl py-125 m-0' id='content-accordion-2-head0'>\n      <button class='akkordeon-header__link d-flex w-100 line-height-12-force  shadow-none font-l-force text-start justify-content-between hover-text-shadow-light btn btn-overlay round collapsed' role='button' data-bs-toggle='collapse' data-bs-target='#content-accordion-2-col0' aria-expanded='false' aria-controls='content-accordion-2-col0'>\n         <span class='akkordeon-header__text pe-3 pe-lg-4'>A glimpse into Beckmann\u00b4s life<\/span>\n         <span class='akkordeon-header__icon round flex-shrink-0'><\/span>\n      <\/button>\n   <\/h3>\n\n   <!-- body -->\n<div id='content-accordion-2-col0' class='accordion-collapse collapse ' aria-labelledby='content-accordion-2-head0' data-bs-parent='#content-accordion-2'><div class='akkordeon-body'>                              <div class=\"akkordeon__text font-l last-child-mb-0 the-content -btns-black px-325 pt-2 pb-35\">\n                                 <p>Looking at Beckmann&#8217;s childhood, one quickly gets the impression that his mother played an important role in his life. Beckmann&#8217;s father died shortly after he was born and his siblings were much older than he was. As a result, his mother was his sole carer during his childhood. Max Beckmann left the art school in Weimar without graduating and instead travelled extensively. When Beckmann was 22, he was devastated by the death of his mother.<\/p>\n<p>A few years later, at the beginning of the First World War, Beckmann volunteered to look after the wounded in the war. In 1915 he suffered a nervous breakdown and was given leave of absence. During and after the war, he dealt with the events in many graphic works. His subsequent works were created in an <a href=\"https:\/\/kunsthalle-bielefeld.de\/en\/discover\/cultural-education\/art-a-to-z\/#expressionismus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">expressionist style<\/a>, expressing emotion and inner turmoil through expressive, fragmented forms and colours.<\/p>\n<p>In April 1933, Beckmann lost his teaching position at the St\u00e4delschule as a result of the \u2018Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service\u2019. At the same time, the National Socialists also organised the first exhibitions in which modern art was to be devalued as so-called \u2018degenerate art\u2019. Works by Max Beckmann were also included. Four years later, he left Germany with his wife and spent the war years in the Netherlands. After the end of the war, he emigrated to the USA.<\/p>\n<p>Detailed information on Beckmann&#8217;s life and where his works were exhibited can be <a href=\"https:\/\/beckmann-gemaelde.org\/biografie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n                              <\/div>\n                              <\/div><\/div><\/div>                                                   <\/div>\n                     <\/div>\n                  \n                  <!-- Sonsiges Block (HTML Option) -->\n                              <!-- End Switch Layout  -->\n\n            <\/div>\n         <\/div>\n                                                                                       \n         \n         <div class=\" mb-475 mb-sm-5 mb-lg-55\">\n            <div class=\"row justify-content-center the-content  font-l font-sm-xl g-2 g-md-4 g-lg-5 sans-serif\">\n\n               <!-- Headings -->\n                                 <div class=\"col-12\">\n                     <p>Discover another work of the artist:<\/p>\n                  <\/div>\n\n                              <!-- End Switch Layout  -->\n\n            <\/div>\n         <\/div>\n                                                                                       \n         \n         <div class=\" mb-475 mb-sm-5 mb-lg-55\">\n            <div class=\"row justify-content-center the-content  font-l sans-serif\">\n\n               <!-- Headings -->\n                                 <div class=\"col-12\">\n                     <p><a href=\"https:\/\/kunsthalle-bielefeld.de\/en\/kb-kosmos\/max-beckmann\/\">Seascape with poplars<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8558\" src=\"https:\/\/kunsthalle-bielefeld.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Max-Beckmann-Seelandschaft-mit-Pappeln-1924_Webseite_KB-Kosmos.jpg\" alt=\"An abstract park landscape painted in simple shapes and predominantly yellow and green tones. Tall, narrow trees stand in the background. In the middle ground, a lake stretches across the picture, bordered by reeds and a meadow to the front. Two men with fishing rods are standing there with their backs to us. They are not looking at each other.\" width=\"497\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kunsthalle-bielefeld.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Max-Beckmann-Seelandschaft-mit-Pappeln-1924_Webseite_KB-Kosmos.jpg 995w, https:\/\/kunsthalle-bielefeld.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Max-Beckmann-Seelandschaft-mit-Pappeln-1924_Webseite_KB-Kosmos-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/kunsthalle-bielefeld.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Max-Beckmann-Seelandschaft-mit-Pappeln-1924_Webseite_KB-Kosmos-768x772.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kunsthalle-bielefeld.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Max-Beckmann-Seelandschaft-mit-Pappeln-1924_Webseite_KB-Kosmos-517x520.jpg 517w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 497px) 100vw, 497px\" \/><\/p>\n                  <\/div>\n\n                              <!-- End Switch Layout  -->\n\n            <\/div>\n         <\/div>\n                                                                                       \n         \n         <div class=\" mb-475 mb-sm-5 mb-lg-55\">\n            <div class=\"row justify-content-center the-content \">\n\n               <!-- Headings -->\n                                                                                          \n                     <div class=\"content-accordion | col-12 py-3\">\n                        <div id=\"content-accordion-5\">\n                                                         <div class=\"akkordeon-item | bg-gray-200 rounded-4 mb-1\" >   <!-- head -->\n      <h3 class='akkordeon-header font-xl py-125 m-0' id='content-accordion-5-head0'>\n      <button class='akkordeon-header__link d-flex w-100 line-height-12-force  shadow-none font-l-force text-start justify-content-between hover-text-shadow-light btn btn-overlay round collapsed' role='button' data-bs-toggle='collapse' data-bs-target='#content-accordion-5-col0' aria-expanded='false' aria-controls='content-accordion-5-col0'>\n         <span class='akkordeon-header__text pe-3 pe-lg-4'>Data about the artwork<\/span>\n         <span class='akkordeon-header__icon round flex-shrink-0'><\/span>\n      <\/button>\n   <\/h3>\n\n   <!-- body -->\n<div id='content-accordion-5-col0' class='accordion-collapse collapse ' aria-labelledby='content-accordion-5-head0' data-bs-parent='#content-accordion-5'><div class='akkordeon-body'>                              <div class=\"akkordeon__text font-l last-child-mb-0 the-content -btns-black px-325 pt-2 pb-35\">\n                                 <p><strong>Artist:<br \/>\n<\/strong>Max Carl Friedrich Beckmann<br \/>\n(12.02.1884 born in Leipzig, 27.12.1950 died in New York)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Title:<br \/>\n<\/strong>Mutter mit spielendem Kind<\/p>\n<p><strong>Year:<br \/>\n<\/strong>1946<\/p>\n<p><strong>Material\/technique:<br \/>\n<\/strong>Oil on canvas<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dimensions:<br \/>\n<\/strong>80.5 x 150 cm<\/p>\n<p><strong>Entry into the collection:<br \/>\n<\/strong>Acquired in 1955 by the then museum director Gustav Vriesen.<\/p>\n                              <\/div>\n                              <\/div><\/div><\/div>                                                   <\/div>\n                     <\/div>\n                  \n                  <!-- Sonsiges Block (HTML Option) -->\n                              <!-- End Switch Layout  -->\n\n            <\/div>\n         <\/div>\n                                                                                       \n         \n         <div class=\" mb-475 mb-sm-5 mb-lg-55\">\n            <div class=\"row justify-content-center the-content  font-m g-sm-4 g-md-5 sans-serif\">\n\n               <!-- Headings -->\n                                 <div class=\"col-12 col-sm-6 col-md-6\">\n                     <p><strong>Author: <\/strong>Eve Sophie Jetses<\/p>\n                  <\/div>\n\n                              <!-- End Switch Layout  -->\n\n            <\/div>\n         <\/div>\n                  <\/div>\n","gallerie":null,"subtitle":"Mutter mit spielendem Kind"},"id_default":8371,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kunsthalle-bielefeld.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/digitorial\/8848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kunsthalle-bielefeld.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/digitorial"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kunsthalle-bielefeld.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/digitorial"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kunsthalle-bielefeld.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/digitorial\/8848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kunsthalle-bielefeld.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kunsthalle-bielefeld.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"digitorialkategorien","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kunsthalle-bielefeld.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/digitorialkategorien?post=8848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}