Perspective: Max Beckmann’s greatest self-portrait was once reviled by the Nazis as 'degenerate'
that it was given a room to itself in Berlin’s National Gallery. In 1937, the prestige it had so quickly accumulated was turned inside out.Degenerate Art
Hitler railed against modernist painting for many of the same reasons people today rail against art they don’t like. He loathed its distortions of the visible world. He saw it as lacking in skill and, at the same time, elitist, cosmopolitan and inaccessible — the product of an international cadre of what Hitler called “chatterboxes, dilettantes and art swindlers.
All of this lurching history can make us overlook the fact that for Beckmann, life was magical, deep, wondrous, contradictory. He tried to paint the force and complexity of its contradictions. He once said that all of life came to him “in black and white like virtue and crime. . . . It is my fortune, or misfortune,” he added, “that I can see neither all in black nor all in white.”
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