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Expressed With More, Or Less Max Beckmann is often looked at one of the most influential German Expressionist of his time, but throughout his life Max Beckmann would prove to be more than just another satirist expressing his outward views of his surrounding world, but would show that he is different from any other German artist of his era. This discussion of Max Beckmann will examine the beginning of his career and his inspirations, then move onto Beckmann’s work during a period where he was considered a degenerate by the Nazi regime, and finish with the true meaning behind much of Beckmann’s work and why his artwork could be, and was, looked at as less expressionistic than most other German artists of his time. Max Beckmann was born February 12, 1884, in Leipzig, Germany. He began to study art with Carl Frithjof Smith at the Grossherzogliche Kunstschule in Weimar in 1900. He finished at the Grand Ducal Art Academy in 1903 making his first visit to Paris and Italy the following year (Wilkin, 2003). He eventually began his art career in Germany and later became an art teacher in Frankfurt where he was looked at as one of the most important German Artists. After the Nazis came to power in Ge