German painter, draughtsman, printmaker and teacher. He was one of the most important German painters of the 20th century. He was initially influenced by traditional styles, but during World War I he rejected perspective and classical proportion in favour of a more expressive objective art. He was persecuted by the Nazis in the 1930s but continued to work, painting his celebrated secular triptychs in the late 1930s and the 1940s.
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![Max Beckmann. Christ in the Desert (Large Figure) (Christus in der Wüste [Grosse Figur]) from Six Lithographs to the New Testament (Sechs Lithographien zum Neuen Testament). (1911)](http://www.moma.org/collection_images/resized/264/w155h170/CRI_117264.jpg)
![Max Beckmann. Christ in the Desert (Large Figure) (Christus in der Wüste [Grosse Figur]) from Six Lithographs to the New Testament (Sechs Lithographien zum Neuen Testament). (1911)](http://www.moma.org/collection_images/resized/264/w155h170crop/CRI_117264.jpg)





























