The Life and Art of Max Beckmann Max Beckmann was a man of many disciplines, working as a painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor, and writer. He entered the world on February 12, 1884, in Leipzig, Saxony. He grew up in an upper-middle-class family as the youngest of three children. His early years were shaped by the quiet stability of his home until 1894, when his father, Carl Beckmann, a grain merchant, passed away. His mother, Ant…