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Max Beckmann

♂  German, 1884–1950

Max Beckmann has been in 72 exhibitions at MoMA, between 1931 and 1990.

72 exhibitions

EXHIBITIONS BY YEAR
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Photo of the exhibition German Painting and Sculpture

12 March to 22 April 1931

Paul Klee, George Grosz, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Max Beckmann, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Summer Exhibition: Painting and Sculpture

7 June to 30 October 1932

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Paul Klee and Fernand Léger, among others, were involved.

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New Acquisitions: Lachaise Torso; Prints

11 July to 13 September 1934

Paul Klee, Paul Cézanne, André Derain and George Grosz, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Modern Works of Art: 5th Anniversary Exhibition

19 November 1934 to 20 January 1935

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Summer Exhibition: The Museum Collection and a Private Collection on Loan

4 June to 24 September 1935

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Paul Klee and Fernand Léger, among others, were involved.

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New Acquisitions: The Collection of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

14 January to 16 February 1936

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Paul Klee and Marc Chagall, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Summer Exhibition: Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection and on Loan

23 June to 4 November 1937

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Fernand Léger, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Painting, Sculpture, Prints

10 May to 30 September 1939

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection

6 May to 30 April 1941

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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New Acquisitions: Free German Art

24 June to 24 August 1942

Max Beckmann, Emil Nolde, Ernst Barlach and Käthe Kollwitz were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Twentieth Century Portraits

9 December 1942 to 24 January 1943

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Fernand Léger, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Modern Drawings

16 February to 10 May 1944

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Painting, Sculpture, Prints

24 May to 15 October 1944

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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What is Modern Painting?

6–25 March 1945

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition The Museum Collection of Painting and Sculpture

20 June 1945 to 13 February 1946

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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The Museum Collection of Painting

19 February to 5 May 1946

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Paintings, Sculpture, and Graphic Arts from the Museum Collection

2 July 1946 to 12 September 1954

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Large-Scale Modern Paintings

1 April to 4 May 1947

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Fernand Léger, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Portraits in Prints

1 June to 6 September 1948

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, William S. Lieberman and Marc Chagall, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Print Gift of Victor S. Riesenfeld and Matisse: Jazz: Gift of the Artist

1–31 October 1948

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Master Prints from the Museum Collection

10 May to 10 July 1949

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Sculpture by Painters

3 August to 5 October 1949

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Max Beckmann, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Recent Acquisitions

25 July to 5 November 1950

Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, Fernand Léger and Giorgio de Chirico, among others, were involved.

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Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection

29 August to 15 October 1950

Pablo Picasso, Max Ernst, Georges Rouault and Ben Shahn, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition New Lamps

27 March to 3 June 1951

Giorgio de Chirico, Max Beckmann, Charles Burchfield and Philip Johnson, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Modern Bible Illustration

18 July to 19 August 1951

Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, Georges Rouault and André Derain, among others, were involved.

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Prints by Max Beckmann

18 September to 24 October 1951

William S. Lieberman and Max Beckmann were involved.

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Recent Acquisitions

6 May to 8 June 1952

Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, Georges Rouault and Ben Shahn, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Summer Exhibition: New Acquisitions; Recent American Prints, 1947–1953; Katherine S. Dreier Bequest; Kuniyoshi and Spencer; Expressionism in Germany; Varieties of Realism

23 June to 4 October 1953

Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Paul Klee and Fernand Léger, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition XXVth Anniversary Exhibition: Paintings from the Museum Collection

19 October 1954 to 6 February 1955

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Modern Masterprints of Europe

7 December 1954 to 1 February 1955

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection: New Acquisitions

5 March to 24 April 1955

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Paul Klee and Fernand Léger, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Recent Acquisitions

30 November 1955 to 22 February 1956

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Fernand Léger and Max Beckmann, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Recent European Acquisitions

28 November 1956 to 20 January 1957

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Jean Dubuffet and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition German Art of the 20th Century

2 October to 1 December 1957

Paul Klee, William S. Lieberman, Max Ernst and Vasily Kandinsky, among others, were involved.

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Second Floor Permanent Collection

Started 8 October 1958

Joan Miró, Paul Klee, Fernand Léger and Marc Chagall, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Portraits from the Museum Collection

4 May to 18 September 1960

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Paul Klee and William S. Lieberman, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition 100 Drawings from the Museum Collection

11 October 1960 to 2 January 1961

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Modern Allegories

19 August 1961 to 30 January 1962

Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, Marc Chagall and Giorgio de Chirico, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition 60 Modern Drawings: Recent Acquisitions

6 August to 29 September 1963

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Paul Klee and William S. Lieberman, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection

Started 27 May 1964

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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From the Museum Collections: Family Portraits

27 May 1964 to 7 February 1965

Ben Shahn, Max Beckmann, Henry Moore and Yves Tanguy, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Max Beckmann

16 October 1964 to 31 January 1965

Max Beckmann, Peter Selz, Harold Joachim and Perry Rathbone were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition The Taste of a Connoisseur: The Paul J. Sachs Collection

21 December 1966 to 5 March 1967

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Georges Braque and William S. Lieberman, among others, were involved.

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The Artist as His Subject

28–30 April 1967

Henri Matisse, William S. Lieberman, Jasper Johns and Marc Chagall, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition The Artist as His Subject

6 June to 17 September 1967

Henri Matisse, Paul Klee, William S. Lieberman and Jasper Johns, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Twentieth-Century Art from the Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller Collection

28 May to 1 September 1969

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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The Nude: Thirty 20th-Century Drawings

10 November 1970 to 21 April 1971

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, William S. Lieberman and André Derain, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition The Artist as Adversary

1 July to 27 September 1971

Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Paul Klee and Georges Rouault, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Works on Paper

7 March to 4 June 1973

Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Paul Klee and Georges Braque, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Published in Germany, 1923

12 October 1973 to 2 February 1974

Paul Klee, Jean (Hans) Arp, Vasily Kandinsky and László Moholy-Nagy, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition German Drawing: The Expressionists

30 August to 10 November 1974

Paul Klee, William S. Lieberman, Vasily Kandinsky and George Grosz, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Points of View

7 March to 8 June 1975

Paul Klee, Marc Chagall, Odilon Redon and George Grosz, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Modern Masters: Manet to Matisse

5 August to 28 September 1975

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Fernand Léger, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Prints from the Collection

14 May to 8 August 1976

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Between World Wars: Drawing in Europe and America

20 August to 14 November 1976

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition A Treasury of Modern Drawing: The Joan and Lester Avnet Collection

28 April to 4 July 1978

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Paul Klee and Fernand Léger, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Art of the Twenties

14 November 1979 to 22 January 1980

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Words and Pictures

20 August to 6 October 1981

Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, Georges Braque and Jasper Johns, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Prints from Blocks: Gauguin to Now

3 March to 15 May 1983

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Fernand Léger, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition The Modern Drawing: 100 Works on Paper from The Museum of Modern Art

26 October 1983 to 3 January 1984

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Selections from the Collection of Painting and Sculpture

1 December 1983 to 3 January 1984

Henri Matisse, Marc Chagall, Max Beckmann and Roger de La Fresnaye were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Selections from the Permanent Collection: Drawings

Started 17 May 1984

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Selections from the Permanent Collection: Prints and Illustrated Books

Started 17 May 1984

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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The Expressionist Idiom

6 May to 18 December 1985

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Paul Klee and Georges Rouault, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Drawing in Austria and Germany

26 May to 29 October 1985

Paul Klee, Max Ernst, Jean (Hans) Arp and Vasily Kandinsky, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Naked/Nude

29 May to 30 September 1986

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition European Drawing Between the Wars

24 October 1987 to 1 March 1988

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Master Prints from the Collection

20 November 1987 to 8 March 1988

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Watercolors: Selections from the Permanent Collection

16 March to 4 July 1989

Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Paul Klee and Fernand Léger, among others, were involved.

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Master Prints from the Collection

6 April to 8 August 1989

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Prints: Proofs and Variants

16 November 1989 to 13 March 1990

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.