Reckoning with exile Beckmann as chronicler of the dispossessedAssociated with but not reducible to both German Expressionism and New Objectivity German painter Max Beckmann 18841950 developed an individual pictorial style using a realistic idiom filled with symbolic references to offer a powerful account of the upheavals of the 20th century and their personal effects.Max Beckmann Exile Figures brings together more than 60 of Beckmanns works including paintings lithographs and sculptures. The publication offers a full overview of Beckmanns life and career beginning with his years in Germanyfrom his first public recognition prior to World War I through the rise of National Socialism in the 1930s when he was fired from his teaching position in Frankfurt and banned from exhibiting in public. After this Beckmann went into selfimposed exile in Amsterdam and the United States where he would live out the rest of his life.