Christiane Zeiller
Max Beckmann. Die Skizzenbücher. Ein Kritischer Katalog, funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft     
Beckmann’s sketchbooks in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and in private and other public collections are being catalogued for publication. With Prof. Dr. Dr. Gerd Presler, Weingarten
A catalogue raisonné of the extremely important collection of fifty four sketchbooks, which contain approximately 1,300 used pages, very few of which have been published before. Every page is illustrated and the artist’s works and notes are discussed in light of existing source material and literature. Including detailed indexes of places, persons, works, and subjects, the volume is destined to become a major resource for research into Beckmann’s life and work.
Forthcoming April 2009

Christiane Zeiller
Max Beckmann Archive
Max Beckmanns Leben von Tag zu Tag

Sebastian Karnatz  
ongoing doctoral thesis for the university of Regensburg, Germany
Max Beckmann and the Theater, supervised by Dr. A. Dietl

Ursula Harter and Stephan von Wiese
Max Beckmann & I.B. Neumann
From 1912 to 1930 Israel Ber Neumann (1887–1961) was Max Beckmann’s dealer and friend, called by the artist his “ur-manager.” After emigrating to New York in 1923, he laid the foundations of Beckmann’s popularity in the U.S.A. after World War II. He first sold prints and drawings by the artist, then, deeply impressed by Self-Portrait with Red Scarf, (1917), paintings as well.
Edited by Ursula Harter and Stephan von Wiese, the volume will contain both the complete correspondence between Beckmann and Neumann and “Sorrow and Champagne,” the chapter devoted to the artist in Neumann’s unpublished autobiography “Confessions of an Art Dealer” (1959). The book will be published by Verlag Walther König, Cologne, in Fall 2008.

Amy Kelly Hamlin
Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Research into Beckmann’s The Synagogue    

Hans-Jürgen Fittkau   
The Frankfurt Painter Karl Tratt
ongoing doctoral thesis, supervised by Prof. Gerhard Eimer

Peter Chametzky
Southern Illinois University, School of Art and Design, Carbondale, USA
Ongoing research into Beckmann’s Titanic

Lea Kamecke
University of Hamburg, Germany
ongoing doctoral thesis Struktur und Metaphorik des Raumes bei Max Beckmann, supervised by Prof. Uwe Fleckner

Barbara C. Buenger
Max Beckmann in Germany, 1904-1937

Cornelia Schmid-Heizer
Universität München
Diploma Dissertation about Max Beckmann's family portraits, supervised by Prof. Dr. Söding

Past Projects

Felix Billeter
Max Beckmann in der Pinakothek der Moderne
Bestandskataloge zur Kunst des 20. Jahrhundert, Vol. 4
Ed. Pinakothek der Moderne and
Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen
Munich, 2008

Eloina Hoffmann
Universität Saarland
Diploma Dissertation Max Beckmann in Amerika , supervised by Prof. Dr. Christoph Wagner

Lisa Nadig
University of Münster, Germany
Diploma Dissertation Max Beckmann and Lilly von Schnitzler

Helena Pereña Sáez
Max Beckmann Archive
Max Beckmann: Bibliographie 1994-2007

Eva Nickl 
Max Beckmann and Fridel Battenberg
diploma dissertation for the university of Passau, Germany, supervised by PD Dr. Phil Eckard Leuschner

Amy Kelly Hamlin
New York University
Picturing the Ineffable: The Grotesque, the Mask and the Dream in Max Beckmann’s Art, 1915–1932, doctoral thesis