Max Beckmann's Birthday

German artist Max Beckmann was born on February 12, 1884. Coincidentally, this was the same year that another famous German artist Franz Marc was born. While Beckmann lived most of his life in Germany, he moved to the United States in 1947. He began teaching art at the School of Fine Arts at Washington University in Saint Louis. His also taught briefly at other art schools like the University of Colorado in Boulder, and the Brookline Museum Art School. Beckmann died two days after Christmas in 1950.

Here is a link for more information about Beckmann's life.

http://www.guggenheimcollection.org/site/artist_bio_15.html