MAX BECKMANN DEPARTURE

Ausstellungsführungen: SA 16.00-17.00
Digitale Führungen „30 Minuten, ein Werk“: DO 28.12.2022, 26.01.2023, 23.02.2023 | 18.00-18.30
„30 Minuten, ein Werk“ | in der Ausstellung: DO 12.01., 09.02., 09.03.2023, 18.00-18.30
Themenführungen: FR, 16.30-17.30
Familienführungen: 1 x pro Monat, 2. SO 11.00-12.00
Känguruführungen: 21.12.2022, 18.01., 15.02.2023, 11.00-12.00
Live Chats: 1 x pro Monat, 1. DI 18.00-19.00
Kunstgespräche: 1 x pro Woche, SO, 13.00-16.00
„Eine Stunde mit…“: 1 x pro Monat, 1. DO, 18.30-19.30
Führungen in Kooperation mit der MVHS: FR, 15.00-16.30

ART EDUCATION ROOM IN ROOM 26
In the art education room, visitors can continue to think about and transform Beckmann's visual worlds.

COOPERATION OF THE ART EDUCATION OF THE PINAKOTHEK DER MODERNE WITH YOUTHNET
Migration and identity questions form the thematic "Departure" for a cooperation with YouthNet, an interreligious and intercultural network for young people in the city of Munich.
Young people with and without refugee experience will reflect on their personal stories against the background of Max Beckmann's biography. The results will be on display in a small show of works in Room 26 of the exhibition from 24 January 2023.

GROUP VISITS & EXCLUSIVE TOURS
Information on group visits and exclusive tours can be found here.

Travel, leave-taking, and departure shaped and punctuated Max Beckmann’s life (1884–1950). Often exhilarating but also often painful, these experiences were fuelled by luxurious holidays, wanderlust, and the desire for freedom, but also war, dislocation, transit, and exile. For the first time, departure and travel as core existential experiences of artists in the first half of the 20th century are the focus of an exhibition on Max Beckmann. The presentation of works of art alongside personal items and documents from the Max Beckmann Estate highlights the enormous range of travel-related imagery in his oeuvre. Beckmann gave his first triptych the ambiguous English title Departure. The theme of travel in art and myth still preoccupied him when he painted Argonauts, his last completed triptych.

The eight exhibition chapters show Beckmann in restless motion—as a tourist visiting fashionable seaside and ski resorts, as a flaneur observing the theatre of life in metropolitan streets, as a guest of bars, hotels, and cinemas, as an exile in Amsterdam during WWII with his freedom of movement severely restricted, and, finally, as a celebrated artist in the United States, where he explored new and unfamiliar landscapes with an eye on geology and mythology. We travel in Beckmann’s footsteps; we follow the private individual to actual places and events on his travels, but we also follow the painter, thinker, and reader into his studio, the site of imaginary, metaphysical, and cosmic journeys. “Departure from the illusions of life towards the essential realities that lie hidden beyond” was the crux of Beckmann’s aesthetic programme. As a result, the actual destinations increasingly dissolved and recoalesced into a painterly vision of passage and departure.

All documents, photographs, books and objects exhibited here are part of the artist’s estate at the Max Beckmann Archive of the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen.