20th Century German Expressionist Artists - Max Pechstein

Max Pechstein was one of the people who formed Die Bruche, The Bridge: a grouping of people who sought to animate the multitude to change their lives and one of the lone members of the grouping to have got had formal artistic training. However he was kicked when, in 1912, he held an exhibit of his work, breaking one of the regulations that the grouping would only demo their work together.

Then in 1916 he enlisted and fought in the trenches of WWI, leading to his creative activity of a series of lithographs called 'The Horror of War'.

1918 proverb him co-found the Novembergruppe. Taking its name from the November Revolution which had culminated in the corrupt monarchy being overthrown, the Novembergruppe was a grouping of expressionists who shared socialistic values. They campaigned for greater freedom and control of the arts.

However, in 1933, when the Nazis came to powerfulness they vilified him, removing 326 of his pictures from museums and removing him from his station as a professor at the German Capital Academy. The ill-famed Entartete Kunst, Deteriorate Art exhibition where the Nazis mocked anti-war art and turned its powerfulness to talk to the people into the powerfulness to hush them featured 16 of his works. During this clip he sought safety in Pomerania.

He was reinstated by the German Capital Academy in 1945 and subsequently won many statute titles and awardings for his work. He died in West German Capital in 1955.

Some very celebrated plant by Max Pechstein:

Kneeling Man at the Tideway of Dangast

Circus

Self Portrait With Death

House on the Beach