18 books like Max Beckmann

What to read after Max Beckmann — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

Joan Miró Joan Miró · 1937 · ★ 4.2 · 85p · ≈ 2h · Moderate "This book takes the reader on a journey through Joan Miro's world of images. It includes work from all phases of the artist's career, from the early paintings in the style of poetic realism, via the playfully lyrical pictures of the 1920s and 1930s, to the colourful works of his later years. Stages in the journey are marked by photographs taken at the time by Miro's fellow Catalan Joaquim Gomis,… Shares Sprengel Museum Hannover, Themes, Painters, Correspondence

Paul Klee Paul Klee · 1930 · ★ 3.7 · 111p · ≈ 3h · Moderate An emblematic figure of the early 20th century, Paul Klee participated in the expansive Avant-Garde movements in Germany and Switzerland. From the vibrant Blaue Reiter movement to Surrealism at the end of the 1930s and throughout his teaching years at the Bauhaus, he attempted to capture the organic and harmonic nature of painting by alluding to other artistic mediums such as poetry, literature,… Shares Catalogues raisonnés, Themes, Art collections, Criticism and interpretation

Van Gogh Federico Zeri · 1937 · ★ 4.1 · 31p · ≈ 1h · Moderate Shares Themes, Painters, Correspondence, Criticism and interpretation with this book.

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Ernst Ludwig Kirchner · 1960 · 263p · ≈ 8h · Moderate 237 p. : 29 cm Shares In art, Art collections, Correspondence, Criticism and interpretation

Lyonel Feininger Lyonel Feininger · 1950 · 50p · ≈ 1h · Moderate Shares Art collections, Painters, Biography & Memoir with this book.

Noa Noa Paul Gauguin · 1900 · 109p · ≈ 3h · Moderate Paul Gauguin fled what he called "filthy Europe" in 1891 to what he hoped would be an unspoiled paradise, Tahiti. He painted 66 magnificent can vases during the first two years he spent there and kept notes from which he later wrote Noa Noa—a journal recording his thoughts and impressions of that time. Noa Noa—the most widely known of Gauguin's writings—is reproduced here from a rare early… Shares In art, Painters, Correspondence, Biography & Memoir

Edvard Munch Edvard Munch · 1927 · 150p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Während eines achtmonatigen Aufenthalts in dem Sanatorium von Dr. Daniel Jacobsen in Kopenhagen verwandelt Munch sein Krankenzimmer in ein Atelier und entwickelt einen neuen extrovertierteren und expressiveren Stil. In dieser Zeit entsteht das Meisterwerk Alpha und Omega, eine grafische Mappe bestehend aus 22 lithographischen Blättern und einem gedruckten Prosagedicht. Zusammen ergeben sie eine… Shares Catalogues raisonnés, Art collections, Criticism and interpretation, Biography & Memoir

Mémoires d'une portraitiste, 1755-1842 Louise-Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun · 1835 · 233p · ≈ 7h · Challenging Madame Lebrun brought out her Memoirs at the suggestion of her friend, the Princess Dolgoruki. in 1835. The authoress was bom in 1756, at Paris, where she died in 1842. She was the daughter of Louis Vig6e, an obscure portrait painter. Her baptismal name was Marie Louise Elisabeth. In 1776 Mademoiselle Vig6e was married to Jean Baptiste Pierre Lebrun, a notable picture dealer and critic, known… Shares Art collections, Painters, Correspondence, Biography & Memoir

Max Ernst Max Ernst · 1956 · ★ 4.1 · 192p · ≈ 6h · Moderate "Max Ernst: Life and Work draws on an unprecedented collection of source material, much of it published here for the first time, to present a compelling portrait of the artist's life and an intellectual portrait of an entire period. These letters and notes by friends and contemporaries provide insight into the reception of his oeuvre, illustrate Ernst's own texts and shed light on his… Shares Sprengel Museum Hannover, Themes, Art collections, Biography & Memoir

Vincent van Gogh Vincent van Gogh · 1914 · ★ 4.1 · 17p · ≈ 34m · Moderate This book contains 658 paintings by Vincent Van Gogh. Vincent Van Gogh was born on 30 March 1853 in Zundert in the southern Netherlands, the son of a pastor. In 1869, he took his first job, working in the Hague branch of an international art dealing firm. He began to write to his younger brother Theo, a correspondence which continued for the rest of Van Gogh's life. Van Gogh's job took him to… Shares Catalogues raisonnés, Art collections, Painters, Correspondence

Andy Warhol Andy Warhol · 1967 · ★ 3.4 · 276p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Shares Themes, Art collections, Criticism and interpretation, Biography & Memoir with this book.

Marc Chagall Marc Chagall · 1948 · 144p · ≈ 4h · Moderate Reader's Digest Endowed Book Fund. Shares Catalogues raisonnés, Correspondence, Criticism and interpretation, Biography & Memoir

Le Corbusier Le Corbusier · 1938 · ★ 3.9 · 254p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Shares Art collections, Correspondence, Criticism and interpretation with this book.

Henry Moore David Sylvester · 1934 · ★ 4.4 · 44p · ≈ 1h · Moderate This seventh and final volume in the complete catalogue of Henry Moore's drawings provides a key to the material contained in the other six volumes. It gives a consolidated version of all the reference apparatus contained in each of the other volumes (index, concordance and list of exhibitions), enabling the user to track down any particular drawing from any period or volume by means of its… Shares Catalogues raisonnés, Art collections, Biography & Memoir

Two Sisters Gore Vidal · 1970 · ★ 5.0 · 236p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Originally published in 1970 this fairly short novel (174 pages) contains, according to the blurb on the dust jacket of the first edition, “Gore Vidal’s singular speculations on love, sex, death, literature and politics.” Shares Biography & Memoir

Marse Henry : An Autobiography Henry Watterson · 1919 · 325p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Shares Biography & Memoir with this book.

The Library of American Biography Jared Sparks · 1846 · 402p · ≈ 13h · Challenging Shares Biography & Memoir with this book.

Autobiography

Autobiography Anderson L Staff · 2001 · 166p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Shares Biography & Memoir with this book.

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