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Max Beckmann

Self-Portrait in Words

Collected Writings and Statements, 1903-1950

Edited and annotated by Barbara Copeland Buenger
442 pages, 10 halftones, 8 maps  5-1/2 x 9  © 1997

Cloth $42.50

ISBN: 9780226041353   Published March 1997

Paper $24.00

ISBN: 9780226041360   Published November 1999

Abbreviations
List of Plates
Preface and Acknowledgments
Maps
Introduction
1: Diary, August 14-September 20, 1903
2: Diary, December 6, 1903-January 6, 1904
3: Diary, January 6 or Afterward-March 9, 1904
4: Diary, April 1-May 7, 1904
5: Diary, December 26, 1908-April 4, 1909
6: Response to In Battle for Art: The Answer to the "Protest of German Artists"
7: "Thoughts on Timely and Untimely Art"
8: Diary, December 20, 1912-April 17, 1913
9: Statement for Exhibition at Hamburg Kunstverein, Max Beckmann (Gemalde), Walter Geffcken (Gemalde), Jules Pascin (Zeichnungen)
10: "The New Program"
11: Wartime Letters: East Prussia
12: Wartime Letters: Belgium (Courtrai, Roeselare, Ostende)
13: Wartime Letters: Roeselare, Wervicq, Brussels
14: Catalogue Foreword for Exhibition at I. B. Neumann Graphisches Kabinett, Berlin, Max Beckmann Graphik
15: "Creative Credo"
16: Text for Hell Portfolio
17: Contribution to "On the Value of Criticism: An Inquiry of Artists"
18: Ebbi: A Comedy
19: The Hotel: Drama in Four Acts
20: Letter for the Piper Almanach
21: Autobiography
22: "The Social Stance of the Artist by the Black Tightrope Walker"
23: "The Artist in the State"
24: Statement in the Catalogue of the Mannheim Kunsthalle Retrospective
25: Answer to Frankfurter Zeitung Questionnaire about Politics
26: "On My Painting"
27: Speech Given to His First Class in the United States, Washington University, St. Louis
28: "Letters to a Woman Painter"
29: Speech for Friends and Faculty during Commencement Week Activities, Washington University, St. Louis
30: "Can Painting Be Taught? 1. Beckmann's Answer"
Table of Monetary Equivalents
Notes
Index
Subjects



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