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Research Projects
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the artist in Neumann’s unpublished autobiography “Confessions of an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
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