Max Beckmann: A Simple Day At The Beach

Max Beckmann was German artist of many talents not only was he a painter, but he was also a sculptor, printmaker and a writer. He was labeled a expressionist by historians even though he didn 't believe in it he rejected both the idea and the movement. Being born into a middle-class family in Leipzig, Saxony. From his youth he pitted himself against the old masters. His traumatic experience of being in World War one really played major role in his paintings and the stories behind them. Especially his famous paint called “Lido” which seems to look like a simple painting of a simple day at the beach. Taking a better look at the picture you’ll realize that it has a deeper meaning that Beckmann is trying to portray to the audience. In Fact the person looking at this painting wouldn’t believe if they were told that painting …show more content…
Beckmann purpose of the painting was to send a strong and vivid message not just only to Germany but to all of Europe to show the effect that the WW1 had not only on him but all sorts of soldiers, from all sorts of countries and backgrounds who survived the it. I believe his hope was to inspire people to not to repeat that traumatic era that his generation had to face over nationalities and petty reasons. The painting did serve it’s purpose to help realize the pain and suffering of WW1 veterans but a couple years later the same dramatic event was repeated by Max Beckmann very own country Germany which caused the traumatic events that happened in WW1 to be tripled in WW2. This painting is very important to Historians because it shows a first point of view of the effect WW1 had on soldiers who actually survived it in imagery oil canvas that multi