{"product_id":"15481-max-beckmann","title":"Max Beckmann","description":"\u003cP class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt\"\u003e\u003cSPAN lang=EN-US style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: TheSans-Plain; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial\"\u003e“Art serves understanding, not entertainment,” said Max Beckmann (1884–1950) in one of his dictums, and Beckmann’s oeuvre does in fact contain a wealth of existential and contemporary historical questions. \u003cI style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal\"\u003eDream of Life,\u003c\/I\u003e the title of this book,\u003cI style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal\"\u003e \u003c\/I\u003eis taken from a poem by the eighteenth-century German poet Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock which Beckmann integrated into one of his sketchbooks.\u003c?XML:NAMESPACE PREFIX = \"O\" \/\u003e\u003cO:P\u003e\u003c\/O:P\u003e\u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u003c\/P\u003e\n\u003cP class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt\"\u003e\u003cSPAN lang=EN-US style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: TheSans-Plain; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial\"\u003eThis panoramic presentation sheds new light on central themes such as the world of the theater, cabaret, and music, dreams and reality, staged sensuality, and the role of the female muse, as well as the artist’s unusual ways of employing romanticizing visual motifs in landscapes and urban contexts. Featuring a representative selection of about sixty paintings done between 1917 and 1950, this book contains illuminating essays on the subject by specialists. (English edition \u003cSPAN style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: TheSans-Plain; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt\"\u003eISBN 978-3-7757-1695-6)\u003cO:P\u003e\u003c\/O:P\u003e\u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u003c\/P\u003e\u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u003cSPAN lang=EN-US style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: TheSans-Plain; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial\"\u003e\u003cO:P\u003e\u003c\/O:P\u003e\u003c\/SPAN\u003e\n\u003cP class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt\"\u003e\u003cSPAN style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: TheSans-Plain; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt\"\u003e\u003cBR\u003eExhibition schedule: Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, March 31–June 18, 2006 \u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u003cSPAN style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Lucida Console'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt\"\u003e·\u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u003cSPAN style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: TheSans-Plain; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt\"\u003e Von der Heydt-Museum Wuppertal, opening July 2006\u003cO:P\u003e\u003c\/O:P\u003e\u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u003c\/P\u003e\n\u003cP class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt\"\u003e\u003cSPAN style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: TheSans-Plain; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt\"\u003e\u003cO:P\u003e\u003c\/O:P\u003e\u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u003c\/P\u003e\n\u003cP class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt\"\u003e\u003cSPAN lang=EN-US style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: TheSans-Plain; DISPLAY: none; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-hide: all\"\u003e\u003cO:P\u003e\u003c\/O:P\u003e\u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u003c\/P\u003e\n","brand":"Hatje Cantz Verlag","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44425519563016,"sku":"9783775716949","price":39.8,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8948\/8049\/files\/odoo_9783775716949_afa65f6c-b349-46aa-b855-3df3759efa27.jpg?v=1744116748","url":"https:\/\/www.hatjecantz.de\/en\/products\/15481-max-beckmann","provider":"Hatje Cantz Verlag","version":"1.0","type":"link"}