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Max Beckmann
Max Beckmann, February 12, 1884–December 27, 1950, was a German painter, printmaker and sculptor, born in Leipzig. He studied at the Grand Ducal Saxon Art School in Weimar from 1900, first with Otto Rasch and then with Carl Frithjof Smith. In 1903 he moved to Paris and enrolled at the Académie Colarossi, where he attended classes infrequently.
Beckmann joined the Berlin Secession in 1907 and helped found the Free Secession in 1914. From 1925 he taught at Frankfurt’s School of Fine and Applied Arts, now the Städelschule. His students included Theo Garve, Karl Tratt and Marie Louise von Motesiczky. He moved to Amsterdam in 1937 and to the United States in 1947.
He taught at Washington University in Saint Louis and, from 1949, at the Brooklyn Museum Art School in New York. His works are held by the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, Hamburger Kunsthalle and Museum of Modern Art in New York. He died in New York in 1950.
Eugène Atget
Eugène Atget, February 12, 1857–August 4, 1927, was a French photographer born in Libourne. He studied drama at the Paris Conservatory and worked as an actor before taking up commercial photography in the late 1880s. He subsequently worked in Paris and its surrounding districts.
Atget photographed streets, buildings, shopwindows, gardens, and street trades, supplying documentary images to artists and public institutions. In Paris he became acquainted with Man Ray and Berenice Abbott. After his death, Abbott acquired and promoted a substantial archive of his photographs and negatives; the Museum of Modern Art acquired that collection in 1968.
His photographs are held by the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the Carnavalet Museum – History of Paris, the Bibliothèque nationale de France, and Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven.
