Max Beckmann's paintings on biblical themes, 1906-1918

This thesis endeavors to demonstrate the importance that religious themes played in Max Beckmann's early art and thought by examining over eighteen works in which he treated subjects from the Bible and by analyzing his writings for his religious thought. Its goal is twofold: to place Beckmann's early religious paintings within the context of religious art in the last decade of Wilhelmine Germany and during the First World War, and to define its significance within the context of his artistic development. Beckmann's Biblical themes form a major part of his early works, and incorporate in a particularly clear manner many of the metaphysical themes that he develops in his later work.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Art Education

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2011

Author dc:creator

• Chung, Young Mok

Contributors dc:contributor

• Franciscono, Marcel

• Biography
• Fine Arts

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 1990 Chung, Young Mok

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

AAI9114206
(UMI)AAI9114206

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/20954